In the modern Olympic Games, the men's artistic gymnastic event consists of how many individual exercises?

Male gymnasts compete in two main events during the Summer Olympics — artistic gymnastics and trampoline — although to most Americans the trampoline is a little watched event. In artistic gymnastics, men compete in six events, using different pieces of equipment: floor exercises, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.

Artistic gymnastics is one of the most popular and most familiar of the Olympic sports with various levels of competition. The difficulty of a gymnast's routine determines the highest value he can earn — the start value. The judges take deductions from that start value to determine his final score.

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Stevie G

Gery Tillmanns, Obviously you did not understand the question. The 8 events you are looking at on your attached link include .... team completion (this is the team competing in the 6 events) and individual all-round men (were the men do all 6 events for a total individual score).

Barbara Greer

forgot about the horizontal bar. was thinking 5

David Holmes

I forgot the horizontal bar!

Joe Mangan

Stevie G asks questions that we should know the answer to, but don't.

Joe Mangan

tbear, not wonderful for me either. Don't worry. It could happen a bishop.

Louise C.

tbear, I am having a bad day as well my friend, so bad that I am off to do some housework, that is bad 😂😊💛

Richard G Schwartz

So the trampoline is now a little watched event? Sad.

tbear

My worse day! I think it's time to stop and go read! 😢😢

deborahpmercer

I ALWAYS mix up artistic and rhythmic, something in me thinks it should be the other way round!

Barb Beck

Mike Smith, Gymnastics that use ball hoop, and ribbons is called rhythmic gymnastics.

David Roy

Mike Smith, what you describe is termed 'rhythmic gymnastics'.

Gerald Woerner

Mike Smith, the author is from the UK. The term 'artistic" is new to me as well as "transatlantic difference", both of which seem to have UK origins.

Joseph A. Robitaille

Lucky guess.

Mike Smith

I thought "artistic" gymnastics involved the use of props such as ball, hoop and ribbons in which only women compete. The events you describe are known simply as gymnastics in the UK. Maybe this is another transatlantic difference.