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Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
The 2009 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are taking place right now in London, England (until October 18th). London's O2 arena is housing a total of 437 gymnasts from 72 delegations competing for medals in ten events, plus the men's and women's individual all-around medals. The championships at the O2 Arena are seen as a preview of 2012, when London will host the Olympic games, and the O2 will house both basketball and gymnastic events. Collected here are some photographs of training and qualifying rounds from this year, the 41st World Championships. (36 photos total)
More links and information
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships - Official site
2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Wikipedia entry
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AWWWW YEAHHH
The human body is amazing. I love the pictures that show the definition of muscles in use.
Es impresionante la fortaleza de estos deportistas a tan temprana edad, muy buena colección como siempre.
The amount of training these athletes do to attain scores to be eligible for the olympics is just incredible. Their hard work shows through
Number 8 is weird. She looks like her eyeballs are missing.
Love #18!
I agree, 18 and 14 are really nice. Toby Melville has been killing it! He's had lots of good work, as has Carl De Souza. There's tons of good pictures pouring out of there. Hopefully they'll get to keep working these great angles during the finals.
The gymnast in 20 is missing a head.
Amazing image captures. #29 reminds me of a Michelangelo sculpture. Great work by the photographers, I like the multi-exposure images and slow shutter speeds used to convey motion.
Photographic Awesomeness!
Beautiful pictures. Amazing. Wonder how you get a hold of these pictures so fast. They are today's pictures and already posted, awesome. Thank you for you Bij Pictures, I am always looking forward to them.
Really awesome viewpoints in these shots- brilliantly emphasizes how flexible and contorted the poses are that these athletes push themselves into!
I love gymnastics photos. I wish most of these were pulled back a bit though. The beam is far more impressive if you can actually SEE the beam, and how small it is (4 inches across), while the gymnasts are working on it.
Totally stunning images as usual.
I love the blurred motion effects and #34 is just amazing.
The cropping of these photos are fairly annoying. Gymnastics is such a beautiful sport, I feel like there could have been a million more shots that would have more imapct...shame.
Looking at these pictures makes me both regret that I quit and relieved that i quit. It is such an amazing sport that pushes the body to a limit that only another gymnast can understand. I love the faces in these pictures, the strain in them is so telling.
@ comment #5, try to do even a fraction of what she is doing and believe me, you're face is gonna look pretty odd too! :)
All of these pictures are wonderful, i love seeing the stress, concentration, and joy. Competitions, especially the Olympics, are what we lived for
cool. love #34 and #10 timed to perfection.
These are amazing athletes captured by amazing photographers.
Thanks for the great coverage.
#2 is beautiful and #34 is an awesome shot but makes her look like a blob with her head popping out (2d).
more pictures of china.
more!!
#29 is amazing!
Really awesome images! Love them. Not to mention some of the hot guys ;) The male form is beautiful.
Great images! Some of the images are very hard to shoot. Super work!
#34 look rly creepy
nice pics as usual
beautiful!
my fave is 18
# 34 = the weirdest picture (based on perspective) I have ever seen.
that's gonna give me nightmares lol....
great photos.
#18 Schrodinger's Gymnast. :)
#20 China is trying to get an unfair advantage by fielding headless gymnasts. I hope she's old enough.
#15, #24 Giggity!
9 and 10 are the best.
It looks like Danny from France is doing a Victorian on the rings in #24. I would like to know if he is or if he is only in the middle of a giant. I am very interested because I did gymnastics for 7 and 1/2 years.
number 18, 20 and 22 are my faves ! 34 is amazing too.
Incredible athletes !
beautiful!!!!!! seu trabalho é maravilhoso!
okay that stupid replacement window advertisement that danced across my screen and blocked my view was INCREDIBLY annoying. Please get rid of those ads!!! This site was so great without it!
Great pics, but what's with the flash add for new windows that wandered out into the frame while I was looking? I don't mind you running some adds, but those intrusive annoying interactive ones really spoil the mood of this site (actually, any site).
Nice pictures, but what's going on in #26? It's obviously the floor mat beneath him (as seen by looking a few pictures down), but why doesn't he cast a shadow?
The most powerful artistic tool, the body!
truly proves the human body is gods creation. Makes me appreciate gods work even more.....
All numbers Amazing and beautiful Pic.
#34 is one heck of a long lens...
Simply amazing - Photography at it's best!
Der Wahnsinn, supergute Bilder, vielen Dank
#12 - I always wondered how gymnasts kept from shredding their palms during bar events. Now I know!
Is 20 for the paralympics? No head and no leg? Amazing!!!
I would like to know the Exif information of those pics, is it possible ?
#35 is amazing because you realize that these are just young kids doing such incredible things.
Great photographs as usual.. #18 the best!!!!
#34 is just unflattering. Grossly unflattering..
muy buenas tomas!!!! gran ojo
Re: pictures #20 and #34.
Not sure you guys are entirely getting the point of these photographs. Look how the gymnasts were able to manipulate their bodies to nearly create a flat plane or straight line. Look at the shapes people make with their bodies. The beauty is in those graceful shapes. Gymnastics is about the ability to do this, not about being pretty or "flattering".
I do see a great deal of beauty and grace in these pictures. It's too bad that some can't.
Great photos! Thank you!
22 - look at her hands, and the peacefull expression in her face.
OMG
my fave is 19....:|
What can be done with endless training, motivation, determination and belief in yourself; expecting nothing less than perfection!
Tonya Crook McWhorter
20 and 29 are very similar poses from two different perspectives (not the exact same, and not the same person, but close). It's really interesting to compare!
And while it may look simple, the amount of strength it takes to perform an iron cross (#9) well is amazing. Gymnasts who can do it without shaking from the muscle strain are amazing.
las imágenes están cool, bn buena onda;
espero ver mas q s vean así los instantes en donde c/emoción es capturada y gravada en la placa de la imagen waoo en serio sorprendente,
saludos de CD Panamá
#20 looks scary...headless person
Absolutely beautiful photots! Love the photos of the hands and feet!
Having been a gymnast, it is fun to guess what skill they were doing at the time the shot was taken. I assure you, you don't FEEL like you're making these shapes!!!
:)
mmmm...male gymnists.
I just saw this gallery right after viewing the one on drug abuse/war... It's so inspirational to see human beings using/taking their body to the limit of positiveness, instead of the contrary.
IMPREIsONANTE
all of them have a very good performance......
they r awsome and i am one too