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55 Photos Of Olympic Athletes That Will Leave You Amazed

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When two gymnast friends meet, expect pictures like this, where they show off their incredible ability to the camera and make a lot of people jealous of how flexible they are. Interestingly, the word “gymnastics” comes from the Greek word “gymnasia,” which means “to exercise naked.”

In ancient Greece, athletes competed without clothes, and in the 1896 Athens Olympics, it was introduced as an Olympic sport. Women’s artistic gymnastics was added in 1928, and more than four decades later, Nadia Comaneci became the first in history to score a perfect 10.0 on an apparatus.

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