🏛️Official — FIG
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Recorded May 13, 2026
Foundational federation milestone. The European Federation of Gymnastics was founded on 23 July 1881 in Liège, Belgium — making FIG the world's oldest existing international sports organisation, predating the founding of the modern Olympic movement (IOC 1894) by 13 years. The 1881 founding established the rule-making body that every modern FIG rule descends from: apparatus specifications (vault, beam, bars, floor, rings, pommel, parallel bars, high bar), scoring frameworks (the perfect-10 era 1968-2006, the open-ended D+E era 2006-present), equipment regulations, and discipline expansions (artistic 1881-baseline, rhythmic, trampoline, aerobic, acrobatic, parkour).
Recorded May 9, 2026
Globalization milestone that transformed a regional European federation into the global governing body of gymnastics. The original European Federation of Gymnastics — founded in 1881 with three founding members (Belgium, France, the Netherlands) — admitted non-European countries in 1921 and renamed itself to the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. The 1921 rename and membership expansion established the federation's international rule-making mandate that every modern FIG rule descends from. The federation operated under the FIG name through the rest of the 20th century until a second rename in December 2025.
Recorded May 9, 2026
Most consequential modern FIG scoring change. The 2006 Code of Points overhaul replaced the perfect-10 scoring system — the iconic ceiling that had defined elite gymnastics since 1968 — with an open-ended scoring system: a D-score (difficulty value) plus an E-score (execution, out of 10, deductions taken from a perfect base). The change eliminated the artificial scoring ceiling, rewarded difficulty explicitly rather than letting it be capped, and remains the operative scoring framework today (with refinements). Critics noted the loss of the perfect-10 mystique; defenders pointed to the more accurate ranking of routines that the old ceiling could not differentiate.
Recorded May 9, 2026
Safe Sport and Athlete Protection
May 23, 2026Medical Staff and Emergency Procedures
May 23, 2026Spotting and Warm-Up Safety
May 23, 2026Apparatus Safety Standards
May 23, 2026Neutral Deductions (Applied by Referee/Line Judges)
May 23, 2026Difficulty/Compositional Deductions (Applied by D Judges)
May 23, 2026Execution Deductions (Applied by E Judges)
May 23, 2026Difficulty Score (D Score)
May 23, 2026Routine Requirements — MAG
May 23, 2026Routine Requirements — WAG
May 23, 2026General Competition Structure
May 23, 2026Section 5: Rules of Play
May 23, 2026Judges and Officials
May 23, 2026Athletes / Gymnasts
May 23, 2026Section 4: Players & Officials
May 23, 2026Safety Zones and Landing Areas
May 23, 2026Gymnastics Attire
May 23, 2026Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) Apparatus
May 23, 2026Men's Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) Apparatus
May 23, 2026Disqualification
May 23, 2026Neutral Deductions (ND)
May 23, 2026Execution Score (E Score)
May 23, 2026Competition Hall Requirements
May 23, 2026