There are winter Olympics so people with winter sports interest can compete in the games. eg. Skiing, figure skating. Summer Olympics so people with summer sports can compete in the games. Gymnastics, swimming...ect.
Gymnasts
Cricket is not in the Olympics
Only people who were entered was allowed to compete in the olympic games.
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55 Fins will compete in the 2012 Olympics.
Yes you see people in the Olympics doing gymnastics where the minimum age is 16 years.
For team gymnastics two people are tumbling at a time.
An estimated 10,500 athletes will compete at the 2012 London Olympics.
12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 people
So athletes who cannot compete in the regular Olympics can compete. They get the same sense of accomplishment, recognition and satisfaction as athletes in the regular Olympics, and people think it's important that they should be able to.
There is JO (junior olympics) which is levels 1-10 and there are meets all the time for gymnasts to compete in with their team. After level 10 there is elite and elite gymnast go to the really big meets like national championships and worlds and try to make it to the olympics. There is also college gymnastics. In college gymnastics two team compete against each other kind of like other college sports. In JO awards are given the individual people on each event, an all-around awards is given and then there is a team award. In elite gymnastics the gymnast is awarded with a single medal and most of the time flowers. In the olympics the individual person is awarded and then there is the main award that goes to the country. In college, all the gymnast usually sit on the floor and the winner is announced.