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Balance beam
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The most-decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles
American gymnast
Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
Czech gymnast
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast
“Father of gymnastics”
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
German educator
Olga Korbut at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games
Olga Korbut
Soviet gymnast
Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Suni Lee
American gymnast
Shilese Jones
Shilese Jones
American gymnast

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