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Why does a gymnast have to be small?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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MonkeyHat44

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It's strength-to-weight ratio. For a gymnast it isn't important how strong they are to an outside scale, but only how strong they are as compared to what they weigh. As they grow bigger their weight increases more than their strength, which eventually limit which jumps they can do. With the current ruling instructions focusing on those aspects of the performance being small is a definite advantage.

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