The combined crew remaining will make its competitors debut on the Inventive European Gymnastics Championships.
The championships, in Leipzig, Germany, start on Monday.
British Olympian Ruby Evans believes the combined crew occasion – which has additionally been added to the Los Angeles Olympics programme for 2028 – is an “thrilling” addition.
Evans says it “provides a unique problem and a little bit of selection to the championships”.
However what’s it and the way does it work?
One feminine and one male gymnast from every federation will compete within the occasion – by which scores in particular person occasions are added collectively to make a crew complete.
Feminine gymnasts will rating on vault, steadiness beam and flooring, whereas male gymnasts compete on flooring, parallel and horizontal bars – and the 16 combined groups with the perfect scores in particular person qualification undergo to the ultimate. The make-up of the groups isn’t determined prematurely – it’s decided by the qualification scores.
Jake Jarman, an Olympic flooring bronze medallist for Staff GB in Paris final yr, mentioned: “It is a good way to carry males’s and girls’s gymnastics collectively. It will be actually fascinating to see the combined crew occasion debut and see the way it goes down with the viewers and followers.”
You possibly can watch the combined crew remaining stay on BBC iPlayer from 15:50 BST on Wednesday, 28 Could.
