My favourite discipline is citation gymnastics! What is yours? Can you invent a new sport?
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I know the olympics are basically over. Really, I should have posted this earlier. Anyway, the gymnastics feat that always impresses me is the Iron Cross (I think that is what it is called). I know you have seen this, but here is a picture from wikipedia:
I don't know which is more annoying - seeing blue & maize clad athletes carrying another enormous trophy away from Penn State on the plane (well, two, actually, apparently, for men and women's gymnasts); or the fact that it even crossed my mind to care what team won a sports competition...
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Wrestling a crackpot to submission.
The data stretch and massage competition. And I can think of a couple of world class contenders.