Different from the image of fierce, muscular fights in the ring, sweaty and even bloody fights, there is also a sport as soft as silk and as graceful as ballet atSEA Games 29.
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| The 29th SEA Games ended and closed last night, August 30th. Many sports were mentioned such as football, athletics, swimming, gymnastics..., many new SEA Games records were set. However, there is a sport with the beauty of "ballet" that is less known and interested by the audience. |
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| Artistic gymnastics is one of the Olympic sports, regularly included in major world sports events. At the 29th SEA Games, Artistic Gymnastics was included by the host country with 8 different sets of medals. |
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| The 7 competitions include: team competition, all-around, hoop, ball, mallet, silk, hoop group, 3-ball group combined with 2 strings. In which, the Vietnamese TDNT team with the core of the Hanoi team only participated in two group events under the guidance of coach Nguyen Thu Ha. |
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| Artistic gymnastics is both a competition and a performance, showing off the graceful, soft and sexy beauty of the human body. Because of this, TDNT is also known as "ballet" in sports. |
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| A moment of music during a Singaporean female athlete's hoop competition. Each group competition has a time limit of 2:30 seconds and the individual competition is 1:30 seconds. |
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| This is a sport that requires many factors including physical strength, flexibility, agility, balance, and especially grace to perform gracefully and beautifully. |
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| To be able to confidently perform on the competition mat, each athlete must go through years of arduous training from the age of 8 - 10. Only at the age of 16 can they officially compete in major regional and world tournaments, before that they will be tested in youth tournaments with different age groups. |
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| Although it is an Olympic sport, artistic gymnastics is scheduled to compete almost last from August 26 to 19 when other sports have finished. |
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| Unlike its brother gymnastics, artistic gymnastics is only for women, the flexibility is much higher, the costumes are more delicate, sparkling and eye-catching. |
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| Many gymnastics competition outfits are elaborately invested in, meticulously and meticulously with many decorative pieces, details, see-through and delicate openings, to show off the athletes' feminine figures. |
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| Each event is only competed once, so any small mistake will result in a deduction of points and cannot be corrected. Athletes are compared to ballet swans and sometimes to circus performers. |
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| Considered a regional powerhouse in sports with strong economic resources, abundant human resources from many training centers, and inviting the world's leading experts for training, it was not difficult for host Malaysia to win all 8 gold medals of the 29th SEA Games. |
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| The Vietnamese gymnastics team had prepared quite thoroughly when they went to Malaysia 2 months in advance to train with the enthusiastic support of the host country and their leading regional experts. At the 29th SEA Games, the goal of coach Nguyen Thu Ha and her team is only a bronze medal in the group event. |
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| In the group round, 5 Vietnamese girls including Truong Mai Nhat Linh, Trinh Huong Giang, Le Viet Trinh, Pham Nguyen Van Nhi, Nguyen Hong Nhung performed below their ability and did not get the high scores as expected. |
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| However, the very next day in the ball and rope group competition, they had an extremely impressive performance, convincing the judges and winning a high score of up to 13,650 points. |
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| While direct competitor Singapore competed first and had no chance to correct their mistakes, the Vietnamese gymnastics team made a miracle when, for the first time in history, they brought home the SEA Games silver medal for Vietnam. |
According to Zing
