Patrick Fallon’s Reviews > Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace (Volume 1) > Status Update

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Gymnastics originally referred to any sort of general athletic movement. In the early 1800s, it became nation-specific disciplines of movement. European countries developed and practiced different versions of gymnastics with different purpose. War affected the development of gymnastics in many ways — during the Cold War, and both WWs.