Day 2: Playing Games, various sports rpf vid recs

[dirty_diana]

The "playing games" theme gave me the idea for this rec set of vids about female athletes. I've skipped individual blurbs here but they're all fantastic vids about the power and persistence of the athletes and the moving highs and lows of defeats and victories in sports.

Content notes: all vids contain some amount of lights from camera flashes and/or the camera movement typical in live sports. Some vids have blurryness or other artifacts from older/transferred footage, in particular Diva and Tightrope.

Diva by runawaynun, Svetlana Khorkina - artistic gymnastics.

Fast Dina by ibSprintin, Dina Asher Smith - sprint distance track & field

Fight Song by gwenfrankenstien, Evgenia Medvedeva, Kaetlyn Osmond, Gabrielle Daleman, Karen Chen, Mai Mihara, Carolina Kostner - figure skating

Hall of Fame by E007y, Aly Raisman - artistic gymnastics

Lights Out by suzanne_f, Tokyo 2020 Olympics - artistic gymnastics

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Sprinting Montage by Athletic Productionz, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, sprint distance track & field

RAISE (a little hell) by thingswithwings, Team Chelsea Carey - curling

Tightrope by eruthros, Team USA basketball

Unstoppable by Genevieve Dale, Team Canada soccer

Comments

[cmk418]

I love this! Looking forward to watching each one of these. Thank you for sharing them!

[mekare]

Thank you for sharing, I‘m off to watch the figure skating vids.

[impala_chick]

I'm really excited to watch these! Also, RAISE and Tightrope are two of my favorite fanvids :D

[dirty_diana]

You're welcome!

[dirty_diana]

Yay, hope you enjoy.

[dirty_diana]

😁 Aren't they so good!?

[facethestrange]

Oh wow, for some reason I had no idea that sports fanvids were even a thing until now. :D Which... should be obvious because fanvids about everything under the sun are a thing. xD AND I was hugely into sports rpf myself, but that was in the early days of the internet and long before youtube was created, so I didn't know any people who made fanvids, and it would have been really hard to share them anyway. So thank you for showing me/us this entire part of fandom! :D (BTW I googled if Carolina Kostner was related to Isolde Kostner, because that's someone from ~my time~! Turns out that she is. :D)

[dirty_diana]

Oh, cool! Sports youtube is a source of endless fascination to me. There's so many cool pockets you would never find unless you look.