If you’re watching gymnastics at the Olympics, you can’t help but notice that every competitor is using chalk. For all gymnasts competing on bars, rings, pommel horse and even the balance beam ...

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 ...

JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesian gymnast Rifda Irfanaluthfi's palms are covered in chalk as she swings between two uneven bars during intensive training just weeks before she makes history at the Paris ...