They are articulate, quick with a joke, self-deprecating and quite good at compulsory exercises.

They finished fifth today in the compulsory exercises, which count for 50 percent of the total team score.

The women's competition opens on Sunday with compulsory exercises.

The real reason for the compulsory exercise, some students believed, was to further intrude into their free time in an already highly regimented day.

Like a prisoner taking his compulsory exercise, Stoner thought.

They held the women's compulsory exercises in the Georgia Dome today.

The United States, third after the compulsory exercises, dropped to ninth at 558.784, the same standing as last year.

The American men's team was in third place after 12 of the 24 teams had completed compulsory exercises.

I have the feeling they are just another compulsory exercise we have to perform.

This is a compulsory exercise which everyone engages in.