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Solid routine from one of the 2008 Olympic Team members, Deng Linlin.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Guan Wenli competed aerial walkover to Arabian front. (big wobble)

(via About.com Gymnastics)

Deng Linlin is the AA Champion for 2009, as well.

A truly superb edit from 17yr-old gymnastdory.

Highlights of the 2008 Olympics, it brought tears to my eyes.

If you have a high speed internet connection, it’s well worth clicking through to watch it on YouTube, a larger version than what’s embedded below.

Thanks Faith.

Pro-jump (UK) and Poweriser (USA) are two brands of spring-loaded stilts used for the extreme sport of Powerbocking. (Alexander Böck from Germany first patented the idea in 1999.)

You might also see them called Kangaroo Boots.

Click PLAY or watch Pro-jump action on YouTube.

There are a number of other brands, of course.

They’ve been used in circus performances. Yet I feel there’s much potential left in this invention.

Perhaps Poweriser basketball.

Thanks Sally. … Check out her The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Leotards blog.

I’ve yet to see the Cirque BUG show. But it looks fun.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s playing Toronto right now. Then touring the USA.

official website

Thanks Marceline.

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Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. …

The choreography, by dancer Noemi Lafrance, owes something to the brilliant Here It Goes Again video by OK Go. That was choreographed by Trish Sie.

… Because her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-American citizenship, though she joked in a televised interview on The Colbert Report that she was given American citizenship as part of a deal with Apple …

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About.com Gymnastics linked to some highlights from the recent meet in China: Preview to Worlds: Chinese National Games

Olympic Bars Champion He Kexin looks great. The favourite for World’s, if she is named to the team. She had the top Bar score by 1.25. … He Kexin 15.950 (7.1, 8.850)

A simplistic YouTube video has already garnered 335,000 views.

It hits the nail on the head, I think, regarding what’s wrong with Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. But why we love it anyway.

Click PLAY or watch Do You Remember When? on YouTube.

Sam showed me this video.

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MissEducated tells us that Jordan Ramos, a British tumbler, has already slammed from further. He’s an athlete sponsored by Milano Sport.

It’s the flash mob that took over Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Watch 21,000 of Oprah’s biggest fans perform one of the biggest dances in the world to the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling.” …

Click through to Oprah’s website to watch the video. Or click PLAY on the video below.

http://play.dipdive.com/i/76361

Very cool. I love these T-mobile supposedly spontaneous performance art dances.

The boneheads that own the original video rights to the clip decided to remove it from YouTube. Doh. They would have millions more hits if they had left it up for a while. Free viral publicity. That company is Harpo, Inc.

Oprah loves Chicago. She’ll be a fantastic representative for the American 2016 Olympic bid next week.

Choreographer Ashley Wallen demonstrates the steps in a video tutorial. Might make a fun warm-up.

Only 800 people were taught this dance. They were told to spread the word to the rest of the crowd.