The blended workforce closing will make its competitors debut on the Inventive European Gymnastics Championships.
The championships, in Leipzig, Germany, start on Monday.
British Olympian Ruby Evans believes the blended workforce occasion – which has additionally been added to the Los Angeles Olympics programme for 2028 – is an “thrilling” addition.
Evans says it “provides a unique problem and a little bit of selection to the championships”.
However what’s it and the way does it work?
One feminine and one male gymnast from every federation will compete within the occasion – during which scores in particular person occasions are added collectively to make a workforce complete.
Feminine gymnasts will rating on vault, steadiness beam and ground, whereas male gymnasts compete on ground, parallel and horizontal bars – and the 16 blended groups with the very best scores in particular person qualification undergo to the ultimate. The make-up of the groups will not be determined prematurely – it’s decided by the qualification scores.
Jake Jarman, an Olympic ground bronze medallist for Group GB in Paris final yr, mentioned: “It is a good way to deliver males’s and girls’s gymnastics collectively. It is going to be actually fascinating to see the blended workforce occasion debut and see the way it goes down with the viewers and followers.”
You possibly can watch the blended workforce closing reside on BBC iPlayer from 15:50 BST on Wednesday, 28 Might.
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