Categories: just-life
Date: 18 October 2009 19:44:30
It has been a good day for winning World Championships for Brits today. Early this afternoon Beth Tweddle made up for the disappointment of falling off her favourite apparatus, the asymmetric bars, by coming back and winning on the floor.
If you didn't see it her routine can been seen here though if you don't want to see the Columbian gymnast land rather painfully on her head don't watch the end of the second tumble of the routine (about 2min 56sec) though she is apparently not too badly hurt.
It has always amazed me at the tumbling ability of gymnasts... a short run followed by a flip, and then a double somersault, then maybe another somersault, but with a twist... at about this point my lower jaw is somewhere on the floor in just plan amazement....
In other sporting news, Jenson Button managed to overcome a poor qualifying with some audacious overtaking manoeuvres to finish in fifth which was enough for him to win his first F1 World Championship... not bad for someone who didn't have a car at the beginning of the season...