Gymnasts Can’t High Five: A GIF Retrospective

Gymnasts continued to be excellent at high fives this week


Showing a 10 for 10 hit rate on larynxes


And joining a long and storied history of celebratory full face punches


Very long


Very storied


Spawning spinoffs like the Eye Claw


The Elbow Knockout


And the highly risky Full Coach Demolition


The coordination is difficult to master


And timing is everything


Resulting in many falls along the way


Even on championship teams


Some balk


Or decline


Linked by historians to ancestral trauma from the Martha head tap


You do at least have to pretend it was an accident though



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