My speech!

Well, here is my speech. I've edited it an all. here goes-

“Gymnastics is an expression of my innermost emotions, my response to the love and care with which I have always been surrounded in my life.” Olga Korbut said that. She was the young from Belarus who was the first to successfully preform a back flip on the beam. By doing this she got everyone excited about gymnastics again. No one took the sport seriously, but that changed over the years, thanks to her.

Gymnastics is one of the most daring, sports out there. It demands flexibility, courage, strength, balance, stamina, and overall power. The top gymnasts practice for hours a day. Most have to leave school, and become home schooled, just so they can get in enough training each day. Most gymnasts compete according to their skill levels, on 4 different apparatuses. They are Floor, beam, bars, and vault. Some of the best gymnasts have invented new skills that were named after their creators. The Yurchenko and the Sukarah-more commonly known as the “sook,” are some examples of the skills the were named atfter their creators.

Bela Karolyi is a coach who has trained some of the top gymnasts in the world- Mary Lou Retton, and Nadia Comenici. They both scored perfect 10's in the Olympics, Nadia being the very first in her sport. These are truly magnificent women.

Injuries are extremely common in this sport, some of them are even . But as tragic as that is, people love gymnastics to watch, and to participate in. I am proud to say, that I am a gymnast, and I love it with all my heart.

Yeah, I know it's kind of long, but its what I wrote, and its almost perfect timing. So yeah. Pray for me! thanks