This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —
This is a video of 13-year old Layla retrieving the last bat of her career with the Clearwater Threshers (a Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies). Layla has retrieved bats for the team for the past six years, after her owner trained her to fetch beer from the fridge
These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside
This is a short video from the US Open of a man returning to his seat with cocktails and trying to hand one to his wife when a man in the row behind them beats him to the punch, depositing a drink in her hand before he can. I wonder
This is a video of Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis beating his previous world record (the 6.25m vault he made at the 2024 Olympics) by an additional centimeter at the Diamond League Silesia, bringing the record highest vault to 6.26m, or 20.54-feet. This is the tenth time in his
To celebrate the conclusion of the 2024 Summer Olympics (I took home the gold in staying up late to watch sports I didn’t know existed), this is a video of tabby cat Calvin demonstrating his athletic prowess by jumping through increasingly higher Olympic rings. One jump he even goes OVER
This is a short and sweet video of balance beam silver medalist Zhou Yaqin from China on the podium with Italian gymnasts Alice D’Amato and Manila Esposito following the gold and bronze medalists’ medal-biting pose for the cameras. How sweet is that? SPOILER: even sweeter than the chocolate inside those
After sweeping the internet by storm with his ultra-casual approach to competitive shooting, this is a video of Yusuf Dikeç in action — action that helped him and female teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan secure the silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. Yusuf rose to fame after