UK Online - Official ISP Of The Olympics The sport of Gymnastics dates beyond the Ancient olympic Gymnastics first appeared on the olympic programme in Games a new discipline of Trampolining was added http://www.ukonline.net/olympics/?art=sportwatch&page=sportcode&sportid=12
TIME Europe | Olympics 2000: This Is Sport? | 9/11/2000 Not only did I score you gymnastics tickets, you valuable client you, but they re for this year s newest olympic sport, trampolining! http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0911/oly_oddsports.html
Extractions: A lot of people want to go to the Olympics, and only so many tickets are available. So to keep everybody happy, you sometimes have to stretch the definition of sport. This, no doubt, is how the Greeks came up with the pole vault. And this year offers a bounty of stupid sports to mollify the masses. Not only did I score you gymnastics tickets, you valuable client you, but they're for this year's newest Olympic sport, trampolining! And trampolining, if you think about it, isn't even so ridiculous a sport. At least it fulfills the basic requirement of promising very serious injury. Teenage girls jump 20 ft. in the air, do tricks called the double back tuck and the full-in-full-out, and then, if the long history of backyard trampolines is any indication, fall on their faces and cry. Jennifer Parilla, the 19-year-old who will represent all of America's hopes in Sydney, however, disappoints by saying her sport isn't really dangerous. "I've never had a backyard trampoline. They're so unsafe," she protests. Parilla insists her sport is totally legitimate. "We go over to anywhere in Europe, and our competitions are televised," she says. She obviously is not familiar with the quality of European programming.
