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Gymnastics was not simply 'created'. It evolved over time mostly from contortion But there is a reason why it became famous. It started in circuses, as freak shows then developed into competitions and the moves developed into named, serious moves.
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A Greek man named Friedrich Jahn in the early 1800s, invented gymnastics. Gymnasts used to be naked while doing gymnastics!
it was started by a women named Nicole Fitzgerald in 1921
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Gymnastics is not a coined term, it is not slang, it is merely a grammatical form of the root word gymnasium. Therefore no one person should be credited with its original usage.
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There's this really cool one named " Stick It". That's all I know of! Good luck!
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