There are Qualifying Team and Individual Competitions, All- Around Finals, Apparatus Finals and Team Finals for men and women in the Artistic Gymnastics Program of the Olympic Games. In principle, the duration of the event is from 6 to 8 days. Entry for these competitions is restricted by qualification.

In the case of Artistic Gymnastics, and in the circumstances mentioned in the preceding paragraph, a team or group may not interrupt the competitions for longer than a maximum of 10 minutes. If after this lapse of time, the gymnast is still unable to perform, the team or group continues the competition without the person who is injured or ill.

Judges in good standing are appointed by the FIG taking into account the degree of the brevet, the experience and the quality of the judges as well as the particular demands of the Olympic Regulations and the requirements of the National Olympic Committees.

This competition is organized by a rotation of Groups, a Group comprising either a team of 4 to 6 gymnasts entered by national federations or teams formed from individual gymnasts of different federations. A team shall provide for not more than 5 gymnasts to compete on any single piece of apparatus and the 4 highest scores will be taken into account for the team total.

For Men, the competition consists of optional exercises on six apparatus. For Women, the competition consists of optional exercises on four apparatus. Only gymnasts who perform on all the apparatus are eligible to qualify for Competition II.

To qualify for the vault finals two vaults are necessary. The qualifying score is based on the average of the two scores.

For the all around and for the team ranking only the first vault will count.

(BOCOG)