Welcome to the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships - where the rules of gravity are rewritten and legends are born.
The 51st edition of the event has landed in Liverpool with Great Britain playing host to the World Gymnastics Championships for the fourth time and the first since Glasgow in 2015.
This is a golden chance for British gymnasts - their first opportunity to qualify for the Olympics and a shot at shining in front of a home crowd.
Here’s what it’s all about.
How the Gymnastics world championships works
There are four apparatus for women and six for men.
Women compete on floor, beam, uneven bars and vault, while men compete on rings, parallel bars, pommel horse, horizontal bar, floor and vault.
There are two judging panels in gymnastics - one for difficulty and one for execution. Those scores are added together to produce an overall total.
First up, it’s qualification. Four British gymnasts will compete on each apparatus to decide who makes the individual all-around (top 24) and apparatus finals (top eight).
The combined total from those routines forms the team total. The top eight ranked teams from qualification reach the final - where they go again, with three working each apparatus.
Olympic qualification in the Gymnastics World Championships
This is the first chance for British gymnasts to win Olympic quota places for Team GB at Paris 2024.
Their task is simple - win a medal in the men’s or women’s team competition.
A top three finish will earn Britain a team quota, which opens up five quotas for the individual all-around events, including each apparatus. That’s increased from four in Tokyo.
The next chance comes at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
Gymnastics World Championships TV coverage
Qualification runs until Monday night and finals begin with the women's team on Tuesday night. That is followed by the men's team on Wednesday, women's all-around on Thursday, men's all-around on Friday and apparatus finals across the weekend.
All finals are broadcast live on BBC Sport - across main TV and digital channels.
British gymnastics prospects
Three of the women who made history with team bronze in Tokyo return here.
Last summer Alice Kinsella and Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova combined for Britain’s first women’s team medal in 93 years.
They will be joined by Ondine Achampong and Georgia-Mae Fenton in the World Championship team, hoping to vie for medals with the likes of Italy and China.
Jessica retained her European floor title in Munich in August and she will debut a new routine in Liverpool. The team won silver behind Italy at the European Championships.
On the men’s side, Britain have stepped on since finishing fifth at the Olympics. They won their first European team gold medal since 2012 in Munich.
Leading the way is Joe Fraser, who reached the all-around and parallel bars final in Tokyo. He became Britain’s third gymnastics world champion with p-bars gold at Stuttgart 2019.
The other Olympic returnees are James Hall and Giarnni Regini-Moran, with European vault champion Jake Jarman coming into the fold for his debut on the global stage.
There is no Max Whitlock who is taking a break from the sport but still aiming for Paris.
WGC history
Britain competed in gymnastics at the Olympics from 1908 but not at the World Championships until 1966.
The only Brits to have been crowned world champion are Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock - who have both done it three times - and Fraser.
The nation’s last and only team medals came in Glasgow seven years ago with men’s silver and women’s bronze
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