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Jessie Oehrlein's avatar

A (deeply questionable) argument for parkour being gymnastics: artistic gymnastics Olympic medalist Shang Chunsong is now a parkour freestyle world champion.

(Deeply questionable because I recognize that people can be great at two different sports, see Ash Barty. But also: Shang's drawing on *many* of the same skills -- sometimes literally -- here.)

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Rodger Sherman's avatar

oh man I didn't even realize this!!!!!! That would've been a much better angle! Adding to the post with credit, thanks for doing a much better job breaking down this sports thing than me!

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Ricardo's avatar

Until recently San Marino had the fastest goal in FIFA qualifying history against England of course. It's pretty amusing to watch

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Kenny's avatar

Read Rodge: where the Grey Cup is too mainstream.

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Rodger Sherman's avatar

nice catch—I'm gonna do a "non-standard football" roundup in a bit!

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Carter B's avatar

Banda needs plenty of support right now as the twitter hate crowd is going after her. :(

Olympic silver medalist in the steeplechase, Kenneth Rooks, also went to BYU.

Curse you, Rodger, I just had to go to the FIG wikipedia page to see if they are also in charge of trampoline and of course they are. What a monopoly. #breakThemUp

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Rodger Sherman's avatar

decided not to give more oxygen to the "dumb people are mad at Banda for existing" thing

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Henny Hiemenz's avatar

This was great, I never heard of half of it! If you’re looking for another emerging sport being run by a Gestapo-esque governing body look no further than All-Star cheer and their overseer Varsity.

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