Kids have been jumping on trampolines for almost a hundred years, but it was only at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney that trampoline became an official Olympic sport. In Olympic competitions, each trampoline gymnast is judged on ten different skills. A gymnast can score well by showing that they can control their bodies while jumping high and twisting and flipping smoothly in the air. love the sport. I've been doing it since l was five years old said Jennifer Parilla, American trampoline gymnast. After Jennifer the only American trampoline competed in the 2000 Olympics (as gymnast), she got a tattoo of a butterfly to remind her of her "new beginnings as an Olympian