Trampolining

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Trampolining, or trampoline gymnastics, is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle positions to more complex combinations of forward and/or backward somersaults and twists. Scoring is based on the difficulty and on the total time spent in the air; points are deducted for poor execution and horizontal displacement (landing away from the center of the trampoline bed). Trampoline gymnastics can be classified into a sub-category of gymnastics known as Trampoline and Tumbling, or TNT, which includes the events of individual trampoline, synchronised trampoline, double mini trampoline, and tumbling. Of these, only individual trampoline is represented at the Olympics.

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