Pommel Horse In Women’s Event? Gymnastics World Divided Over Gender Equality In The Sport

 

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The Instagram post further swiped right to state that the new all-around arrangement effective from the year 2029, would make some drastic changes in WAG – Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and MAG – Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, specially by removing the pommel horse from MAG and shifting it to WAG. While everyone who read the unexpected news seemed surprised by such a sudden announcement, the last picture depicted how well of a joke it was on April Fool’s Day!

Fans were stunned at this declaration

While some fans made hilarious comments wishing the news was true, other fans wished the opposite. Though gender equality has been a whooping subject in the history of gymnastics, the audience enjoyed getting fooled by this post. The viral fame of TikTok and a 4x NCAA Champion,

Ian Gunther could not refrain from saying, “Can we make this real please.”

Other gymnastics fans enthusiastically commented on their view after getting fooled, “Isn’t it sad that I thought “Of course, it has”. Glad it was an April Fools!” and “The absolute rollercoaster I went through in the 3 seconds it took me to figure it out.” And some wished if the news was true. “Leveling the playing field.” and “Meanwhile, we just want a male balance beam.”, others posted as a reaction to the post.

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