Brave Chinese Gymnast Competes Sans Head

Due to the outfit this gymnast is wearing along with the extreme flexibility exhibited to the point she truly appears to be headless, what we initially appear to have here is a bowling ball levitating above a blowup doll. Amazingly enough, it’s just a supremely flexible Chinese gymnast with, well, a bowling ball levitating above the space where her head normally is. Not since Anthony Young impersonated a starting pitcher have I been so thoroughly fooled by an athlete.

It’s only August, but the award for creepiest photograph of the year already has a home.

[via The Telegraph; @MichelleSteele]

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32 Responses to “Brave Chinese Gymnast Competes Sans Head”

KC Resident Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:51 AM

No head, one leg. How has Rick Reilly not written a column about this heroic red?

Roethlishotdog Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:53 AM

This is just like one of those horsemanning photos.

rittyrich Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:54 AM

Football? Please hurry.

cracker jack Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:56 AM

GOO!

ATL_Badger Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:56 AM

No head, one leg. How has Rick Reilly not written a column about this heroic red

Probably because no head = no teeth.

YYSA Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:57 AM

It’s only August, but the award for creepiest photograph of the year already has a home.

Very Iconic.

cleet Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 AM

Very Iconic.

Bravo.

Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:01 AM

Football? Please hurry.

Gymnast sans head, Commenter sans sense of humor.

sportsgal116 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:03 AM

I just stared at this picture for 5 minutes before I figured out her back is to us in the picture and her head is bent down.

ATL_Badger Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:06 AM

I just stared at this picture for 5 minutes before I figured out her back is to us in the picture and her head is bent down

I think you’re looking at it wrong… her foot is pointed towards us and right-side up.

cracker jack Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:06 AM

I just stared at this picture for 5 minutes before I figured out her back is to us in the picture and her head is bent down.

Wait, how is her leg pointing like that if that’s her back?

YYSA Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 AM

That picture needs a side by side of the gymnast just being normal. Otherwise I call bullshit. I would be more willing to believe that is made of plastic and filled with chinamen semen.

cracker jack Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 AM

I think you’re looking at it wrong… her foot is pointed towards us and right-side up.

But look at her arms- definitely looks like theyre from the back. She looks like she went through the portal in Spaceballs and ended up with her top half backwards.

Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:08 AM

I just stared at this picture for 5 minutes before I figured out her back is to us in the picture and her head is bent down.

Well then her back appears to have boobs. It’s getting weirder and weirder.

ATL_Badger Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:08 AM

But look at her arms- definitely looks like theyre from the back. She looks like she went through the portal in Spaceballs and ended up with her top half backwards

I’m more inclined to believe your arms can get into that position than your leg… especially right at the hip.

jck49erfan Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:08 AM

That’s got more photoshop than Christina Hendricks on a Mad Men poster

ATL_Badger Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 AM

Well then her back appears to have boobs. It’s getting weirder and weirder.

This too. It looks like she has some bewbage going on there. As much as a gymnast can have bewbage anyway.

Roethlishotdog Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 AM

But look at her arms- definitely looks like theyre from the back. She looks like she went through the portal in Spaceballs and ended up with her top half backwards.

Look at her thumbs – you’re looking at her head on. She has her head arched backward.

arkbadger Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 AM

That’s got more photoshop than Christina Hendricks on a Mad Men poster

well played. +5 minutes of sunlight on direct skin.

cracker jack Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 AM

Ah, good call on the position of the thumb

Roethlishotdog Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 AM

These photos are not that uncommon.

Here’s another.

HawkEye Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:11 AM

She’s bendy

cracker jack Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Here’s another.

Ah, the dreaded foot-head disease

YYSA Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Here is one of her from the side.

NDub Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:18 AM

This is fucked up.

YYSA Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:21 AM

Has anyone explained the ball? When is that used on floor routines?

sportsgal116 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:24 AM

Her left arm (on our right) completely distracted me from the position of her foot.

ScubaSteve007 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:25 AM

Has anyone explained the ball? When is that used on floor routines?

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors (from 2 to 6 people) manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free (no apparatus, so called “floor routine”).

sportsgal116 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:26 AM

Has anyone explained the ball? When is that used on floor routines?

Rhythmic gymnastics use props in their routines.

ScubaSteve007 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:27 AM

Forgot /Wiki at the end…because I had no idea a rhythmic gymnastics sport existed.

sportsgal116 Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 10:27 AM

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors (from 2 to 6 people) manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free (no apparatus, so called “floor routine”).

You forgot /jmorris’d

kvnryn Says:
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:10 PM