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===Tumbling===
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In tumbling, athletes perform an explosive series of flips and twists down a sprung tumbling track. Scoring is similar to trampolining. Tumbling was originally contested as one of the events in Men's Artistic Gymnastics at the [[Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's tumbling|1932 Summer Olympics]], and in 1955 and 1959 at the [[Gymnastics at the Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]. From [[1974 World Sports Acrobatics Championships|1974]] to [[1998 World Sports Acrobatics Championships|1998]] it was included as an event for both genders at the [[Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships]]. The event has also been contested since [[1976 Trampoline World Championships|1976]] at the [[Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships|Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships]].

Tumbling is competed along a 25-metre sprung tack with a 10-metre run up. A tumbling pass or run is a combination of 8 skills, with an entry skill, normally a round-off, to whips (similar to a [[Handspring (gymnastics)|handspring]] without hand support) and into an end skill. Usually the end skill is the hardest skill of the pass. At the highest level, gymnasts perform transitional skills. These are skills which are not whips, but are double or triple somersaults (usually competed at the end of the run), but now competed in the middle of the run connected before and after by either a whip or a flick.

Competition is made up of a qualifying round and a finals round. There are two different types of competition in tumbling, individual and team. In the team event three gymnasts out of a team of four compete one run each, if one run fails the final member of the team is allowed to compete with the three highest scores being counted. In the individual event qualification, the competitor will compete two runs, one a straight pass (including double and triple somersaults) and a twisting pass (including full twisting whips and combination skills such as a full twisting double straight 'full in back'). In the final of the individual event, the competitor must compete two different runs which can be either twisting or straight but each run normally uses both types (using transition skills).