Gymnasts use chalk, also known as magnesium carbonate, on high bar, parallel bars, uneven bars, and rings to reduce friction. They also use chalk on vault, beam, floor exercise and pommel horse to aid ...

By Maggie Astor If you spend any amount of time in gymnastics facilities ... Along with chalk, most gymnasts use leather hand grips while competing on bars because they help reduce blistering ...

The pommel horse is one of the six apparatuses men use during a gymnastics competition. The others include floor exercises, rings ... so athletes can have good grips. The apparatus looks like ...

World super middleweight champion Carl Froch is stepping out of the ring and onto a pommel horse after signing up to take part in a new gymnastics-based entertainment show. Tumble, which will air ...