It's a fact that gymnastics — specifically women's gymnastics — is the best Olympic sport. Summer or winter, it doesn't matter: women's gymnastics is it.
And while I'm sure you know how impressive these gymnasts are, it wasn't until I found these pictures from Tokyo that it was *really* put into perspective.
1.Let's start with the balance beam.
2.Like, she's literally staring at the beam while she's upside-down like it's not a thing?!
3.And I can barely reach the paper towels in my upper cabinet, but here's a gymnast completely vertical on a tiny little beam.
4.I'd be concussed.
5.I don't even know what's going on here, all I know is that I would die.
6.Like this would actually be my last moments of life.
7.This is how I feel going down the stairs when it's dark, let alone hopping on a balance beam.
8.Good lord.
9.And that's only the balance beam.
10.In floor exercise, we get athletes in some unreal positions.
11.I can't even touch my toes.
12.She's floating downward.
13.Floating clockwise.
14.And she's in perfect form while doing a bajillion flips and twists.
15.How even?!
16.And I can't even tell you what's going on here.
17.Then we have someone like Simone Biles, who can jump 10 feet in the air.
18.Like, she's going so fast her whole body is vibrating.
19.The vault is crazy too.
20.Like, sprinting towards a pommel horse and launching yourself into the air?
21.No thanks, I'm all set.
22.I'm not sure how this guy is gonna help with his palm extended, but go off.
23.Move, man!
24.Like, do you think they even remember this moment?
25.The uneven bars is a whole other horrifying discipline.
26.Like, I think I'm gonna die when I sneeze while I'm driving, let alone hurling myself on some bars.
27.It's straight-up terrifying.
28.Also, they're spinning around in circles, which, like, I get dizzy from looking at my phone in the car for too long.
29.Good luck with that one!
30.Then there are these pictures where they are grasping for that bar.
31.GRAB IT, GIRL, YOU'RE GIVING ME ANXIETY.
32.Lastly, let's just look at some of their faces.
33.Like, I'd be freaking the fuck out and she is just all up there floating around like la di dah.
34.It's like she's watching a horror movie casually on the couch but she's doing like 37 flips in the air.
35.In conclusion, this is how I feel about gymnastics now:
36.Now excuse me while I try to do a single cartwheel, something that has eluded me since age 11.
