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BATON ROUGE — LSU All-American gymnast Susan Jackson earned the No. 10 spot in ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays of the night on Monday after her acrobatic, unique first “pitch” at a recent LSU baseball game.

The nation’s No. 1 ranked all-around gymnast, Jackson stood in front of the pitcher’s mound and performed a series of one-handed back handsprings toward home plate while holding the ball in her left hand.

Jackson stopped just short of the home plate dirt where she proceeded to turn around and flip the ball to LSU freshman infielder/catcher Matt Fury.

SportsCenter anchor Josh Elliot remarked, “That may be the greatest first pitch I have ever seen in my life.” …

LSU Sports

Central Station Antwerp, Belgium

More than 200 dancers …

It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of “The Sound of Music”.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Linked by (fantastic) choreographer Jenne Smart Kissell on Facebook.

Sports Girls Play linked to an amusing TV commercial:

… this PSA ad put out a few years ago spotlights the importance of Dad’s involvement in the development of their childrens’ self esteem. Enjoy….

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Youth Sports Parents and Sports Girls Play)

Micah Marino, currently at Mismo Gymnastics, posted a tightly edited montage including a number of “stupid human tricks” I’d never seen before.

There are enough comedic touches and “crash” outtakes to keep you going.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(Hopefully the Mismo owner, Kelley, will never see this video. Better she not know who’s jumping off the roof.)

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if gymnastics was easy it would be called football

In High School Physical Education, obviously, I was the teacher’s assistant for the Gymnastics Module. The football players got paid back.

Best was watching them try to cross support on low rings. Hilarious.

Season 21, Episode 13 Boy Meets Curl.

… The episode saw Homer and Marge Simpson compete in mixed curling. It aired during the Olympics, which began February 12, 2010. Sportscaster Bob Costas guest starred in the episode as himself. …

Wikipedia

Click through to watch that episode on CH131.

It skewers Canadians very effectively.

Comedian Stephen Colbert is at the Winter Olympics as “Assistant Sports Psychologist” to the U.S. Speed Skating Team. As well as a colour commentator for NBC.

Stephen’s personal philsophy is clearly stated on his personal poster.

Where I live in Canada there’s controversy regarding our “OWN THE PODIUM” program.

That’s a 5yr, $120 million fund created to put Canada first in medals won at the Vancouver Olympics. And in the top 3 in Paralympics.

Canadian athletes in the past, famously, have been gracious in defeat. Garnering more than our share of 4th and 5th place finishes. It’s about time we made it clear that our athletes are not “tourists”, as Dick Pound once called them.

Canadian athletes praise Own The Podium. And so do I.

I disagree with most of the complaints I’ve heard against Own The Podium. The only serious accusation is that the organizing committee scheduled too little practice time for foreign athletes at the competition venues. The Canadians got a lot more time, I hear. If so, the IOC needs change the rules.

GEM posted a couple of links relative to the story of the luger who died on a training run. Here’s one:

Kumaritashvili had just 26 practice runs, as opposed to the 200 for the Canadians

Be sure to read all the details before jumping to any conclusion.

From one of my former gymnasts.

Anna’s boyfriend says he’s UCLA Gymnastic’s BIGGEST FAN.

It’s hard to argue after seeing this interview. Don’t bother sending Anna a valentine.

Click PLAY or watch fan boy on YouTube.

(via @uclagymnastics)

UCLA’s Allison Taylor says she’s the only girl on the team who can do this drill.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

A couple of wannabes give it a try here, including Anne from Gymnastike, herself.

Do you know someone who can do it in series, like Allison?

Join Gymnastike (free) and upload the video to the site. They might be profiled on the Home Page.

Game on.

Funny.

Olympic gold medal gymnast Kyle Shewfelt and comedian Rick Mercer “uncover the top secret science behind Canada’s bid to Own the Podium in Vancouver“.

Click PLAY or watch the TV clip on YouTube.

What is Own the Podium?

… or À nous le podium en 2010! in French, is a Canadian sport technical program launched in January 2005 to prepare Canada to become the top winter sporting nation in the world by 2010 …

This achievement will be measured by whether Canada becomes the top medal-winning nation at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, and places in the top three at the 2010 Paralympics Winter Games. To achieve the goals of 2010, the focus of the program is to provide additional resources and high performance programming to Canadian athletes, coaches and support personnel.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Brett MacAuley on Facebook)

Is the Olympic Floor champ switching to a new sport?

Kyle dons the most advanced skating suit in the world!

Only for the TV show hosted by comedian Rick Mercer.

… though Shewfelt vs Colbert would be a GREAT battle.

related post – Shewfelt interviewed by comedian Rick Mercer (2006)