Tag Archives: gymnastics
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Texas High School Cheerleader Sets World Record For Consecutive Backward Handsprings (Video)
One year ago, a high school cheerleader named Miranda Ferguson wowed the crowd at a high school football game in Dallas, Texas, by performing 20 backward handsprings in a row during halftime. The impressive feat inspired one of her friends to do a little research, and that friend discovered that the official Guinness World Record [...]
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US Gymnasts Are Hitting The Town Now That Their Events Have Concluded (Video)
Now that the women’s gymnastics competition has finally concluded at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the American gymnasts—so successful this year—can finally relax and have some fun in one of the world’s greatest cities. So what does relaxing and having fun entail if you are gold medalists Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, and [...]
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Some Old Dude Told Aly Raisman’s Dad To Sit Down After Her Gold Medal Floor Routine (Video)
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching the Olympics and all the sappy Olympics commercials this year, it’s that it is probably harder to be the parent of an Olympic athlete than it is to be the athletes themselves—not physically, of course, but emotionally. How so? Because they’re just as emotionally involved in the [...]
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20 Gymnastics Fail GIFs
Yesterday we told about American gymnast McKayla Maroney and her jaw-dropping vault during the team all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was so good that it literally left the judges flabbergasted, and yet they didn’t award it a perfect score. Of course, losing a few tenths of a point didn’t hurt the USA [...]
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Here’s McKayla Maroney’s Jaw-Dropping Perfect Vault That Somehow Didn’t Receive A Perfect Score (GIF)
What you see above is what most are calling a “perfect vault” from 16-year-old U.S. female gymnast McKayla Maroney. It occurred during the women’s gymnastics team competition yesterday, and it was a significant moment for the American Team during their gold medal performance. Oddly enough, the only ones who didn’t seem to believe that this [...]
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Nastia Liukin’s Gymnastics Career Ends With Face-Plant On Uneven Bars (GIF)
Four years ago in Beijing, Nastia Liukin became just the third U.S. woman ever to win gold in the all-around women’s gymnastics competition. Her surprising victory at the age of 18—surprising because of her “advanced” age, because teammate Shawn Johnson was more highly regarded, and because the Chinese snuck a bunch of underaged gymnasts into [...]
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Check Out The Gracefulness Of This 86-Year-Old Gymnast (Video)
I’m not going to lie to you. Before I pressed play and watched this video of 86-year-old gymnast Johanna Quaas performing a floor routine, I thought I was in for a good laugh. I was wrong. I never even came close to laughing. Instead, I simply stared at my computer screen for the following 80 [...]
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Steady, Steady, Steady…(GIF)
Some people might say that this girl has terrible balance, but I would argue that her balance is actually quite extraordinary. After all, there aren’t many people who could flail around on a balance beam like that, but somehow avoid falling off it. You might call this gif a “blooper” or “fail,” but in my [...]
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Check Out This Polish Tumbler (Video)
Dizziness apparently is not an issue for Jozef Wadecki, otherwise he would probably have a much more difficult time sticking that landing after flipping his body about a dozen times. For his first routine, the Polish tumbler executed a “front flip off of the springboard, followed by a whipback, back handspring, triple twist, whipback, back [...]
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Picture Of The Day: I Get By With A Little Help From My Fans
Home-court/field/ice advantage has always played an important role in sports like basketball, football, soccer and hockey. However, I have never really considered it to be much of a factor in gymnastics, until now. I guess sometimes we all need somebody to lean on.
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Picture Of The Day: WTF Is This Sport Called?
Will somebody please get me the name of this sport? Archery, motor racing and gymnastics all in one? There is only one word to describe it. Awesomeness! This picture is pretty cool, but I feel like only a video would allow us to gain a true appreciation and sense of respect for this sport. It [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Hold Still!
That move must have taken a lot of practice, with plenty of face plants and aching shoulders along the way, but it looks like all that work has paid off. Not only is the fact that she can hold her entire body up with one arm remarkable, but check out her form! So what is [...]
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Picture Of The Day: The Finest Olympic Moment?
If I asked you what your finest Olympic moment was, what would you say? Would it be Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 at the 1976 Montreal Olympics? How about Sidney Crosby’s overtime game-winning goal during the gold medal hockey game at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? Or perhaps it was Muhammad Ali’s lighting of the [...]
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Blind 11-Year-Old Gymnast Is An Inspiration To Us All (Video)
Meet Lola Walters. To those who do not know her, she appears to be just another young female gymnast looking to someday represent her country at the Olympic Games. But to those who do know Lola, there is much more to her than meets the eye. Lola was born legally blind. But instead of seeing [...]
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Wide Right! (GIF)
Wow!….I mean,….Wow! This may be just about the most poorly coordinated kid I have ever seen in my life. I can understand misjudging the take-off and missing that jump by a few inches, but this kid is so far off that he almost misses the entire landing mat. And to think that mat is placed [...]
