Word: turnplatz
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Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
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