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I remember her from 1972, and even today this is amazing to watch. Olga Korbut performing the now banned “Dead Loop.” Standing on the top bar, before performing a perfect back flip and catching the bar again. Definitely a unique, brilliant, and incredibly dangerous moment in sport…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGn3v-e8oM&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that, however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but, on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are diminution to his.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-24), The Spectator, No. 256

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/76871…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #baseline #celebrity #expectations #highbar #renown #reputation

Complicity is
Knowing an evil exists
And not stopping it.

#haiku #highbar

The number of falls in these gymnastics finals show how far these supreme athletes are pushing themselves!
Wow!
#Paris2024 #Olympics #Beam #HighBar

BBC Commentator for men’s All-round high-bar, somewhat incongruously, sounds like Johnny Vegas.

#bbc #Olympics #highbar

Maybe Elon is right about #twitter and #instagram?

Can #mastodon make people more knowledgeable and better humans? 😉

#commodon #highbar #twittermigration #optimism

gamera high bar…

#gamera #highbar #gymnastics #monster #mst3k #vidcap #animatedgif

gamera high bar…

#gamera #highbar #gymnastics #monster #mst3k #vidcap #animatedgif

pony acrobat...

#pony #acrobat #gymnastics #highbar #dismount #animatedgif

pony acrobat...

#pony #acrobat #gymnastics #highbar #dismount #animatedgif

horizontal...

#horizontal #highbar #robot #twirling #dismount #gymnastics #animatedgif

faceplant at the mall...

#gymnastics #highbar #shownigoff #release #letgo #faceplant #mall #animatedgif

pole vault high bar...

#polevault #highbar #dismount #gymnastics #trackandfield #animatedgif

don't fuck around with superglue...

#superglue #hands #stuck #highbar

malfunction...

#malfunction #gymastics #highbar #basejumping #cliff #glasses #animatedgif

never dismount...

#gymnastics #highbar #never #dismount #animatedgif

a girl walks up to a #bar...

#highbar #pushups #strength #chainlinkfence