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yes i am obsessed enough with gymnastics to post this

someone equally as obsessed as me edited together the top uneven bars competitors headed to beijing along with tech notes about scoring. it's certain the individual uneven bar medalists will come at least partially from this group. hexin ke is a huge threat for gold, even over nastia liukin.

if this post isn't gay enough, after the jump is a vid of a loose shorts wearing jordan jovtchev on floor exercise, including slow motion flares. oh yeah, jordan's a guy. i didn't say "jordin" (sparks).

unshockingly a man doing balance beam looks superfemme (which is a good thing)

he's just playing around, but why can't this be in the olympics?

breakdancing in gymnastics

kinda as ridiculous as when i danced to taylor dayne's "tell it to my heart" at prom. yes with a girl. unfortunately.

well this is hypnotic

uneven bars developments (1950s to 2005).  oh just watch it.  i'm obsessed with gymnastics so you should be too.  tori amos is the soundtrack if that helps.

this always makes me happy not that i picture myself as oksana omelianchik or okay i do but i also like to watch her make it happen in '85

paul hunt (paulette huntinova) drag gymnastics spectacular

no one can prove dimitri kaspiarovich is wearing pants

men who vault and the men who watch them

it's world gymnastics championships time.  the u.s. men's squad didn't even make the top eight to get into the team finals, though we did place two in the individual all-around.  our women's team is doing much better so far, first actually.  from the preliminaries here are two vaulters who really really really want to do a good job.  so they did 5000 push-ups a day, ran at 20 plus mph at a vaulting horse, launched themselves in the air with angry abandon and landed in some manner.  or possibly they ran toward me with out of control desire, launched themselves in the air and i caught them and we loved and laughed and i was sore for days. either way, here's to you poland's przemyslaw lis and italy's matteo morandi.

a little too

• a little too real
• a little too sad
• a little too dangerous
• a little too beautiful

do not stick it

now i love nastia liukin. she's the most precisely graceful and artsy gymnast on the scene right now, and she has the world championship gold medals to prove it. and i'm sure her cameo in the upcoming gymnastics movie stick it (no it's not about post-its) is really good and dandy and fine and super. but it's just that the whole concept of the movie is so wretched and scary and horrible and i can't help but think of mitch gaylords's american anthem travesty.  please hollywood, do not make a gymnastics movie ever again because with the exception of little girls in pretty boxes and that law & order where this one girl gymnast killed this other girl gymnast with a brick, you will always mess it up.

plus the world gymnastics championships didn't make it to network or even cable tv last time, just streaming video online, and clips days later on the gymnasts' individual websites. while it should be popular it is not, so your movie will fail, worse than the mermaid movie with jojo, which i am too angry at to even link to. damn jojo. instead enjoy this. if you're gay to start, you'll either get ungayed or get really really gay. and if you're a dyke, you'll get much dykier, unless you're an assdyke and not a boobdyke. you'll see.