# Chearleaders - Wher else besides America?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chearleaders-wher-else-besides-america/256865>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chearleaders-wher-else-besides-america/256865 "2004-07-26T00:19:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chearleaders-wher-else-besides-america/256865/41 "2004-07-28T10:32:03Z")

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> [@lemon\_martini2](#):
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> Time to do something about then 🙂 \*Wouldn’t mind see you in a cheerleading kit \* 😛 :rolleyes:

😃

Me in a _skirt_? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

😃

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**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chearleaders-wher-else-besides-america/256865/42 "2004-07-28T11:14:36Z")

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> [@Ponster](#):
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> I’ve been to about 5 games in the UK and 50+ here in France.  
> Each time there were always people, just plain fans, whose job was to get the crowd singing. They’d be part of the offical fan-club I guess, and would hand out flags, banners and get the people singing.  
> Sometimes, esp in Paris, they wouldn’t even be watching most of the game, prefering to do their active part in rousing the crowd.

I have been to many football games in the uk and have not noticed anything very official aboout the chants that spread about the grounds. Many are quite obcene or libelous. “You are shit and you know you are” is always a popular chant for opposing teams. “There are only two Andy Gorams” is one of my favourites - chanted when rumours of the Ranger’s goalkeeper’s alleged schizophrenia surfaced. Another was the response “we want one” to the home supporters’ chant of “we want six” upon going 5-0 up.

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**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chearleaders-wher-else-besides-america/256865/43 "2004-07-28T20:13:33Z")

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> [@Nvme77](#):
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> The team works on a spring floor as well and they do have cheerleaders that cross compete as gymnasts. However eventually a girl has to decide whether to go the cheer or gymnast route.
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> Our gym had a gymnast at Sydney in 2000 (?), of course she wasnt a cheerleader. That’s just the caliber of teaching gym that can produce several cheer teams. My niece practices 10 hours a week and she is nine. Trust me, if I didn’t think she was capable or the results were not worth it, we might not be there. I’m the one who drives her and gets to hang with the oh so cool gym moms for 10 hours as well.

They don’t compete on a sprung floor in Australia, (I don’t know about the US) so it’s kind of irrelevant that they train on one. I teach gymnastics, my youngest gymnast just turned six, she’s training 10.5 hours a week. She’s in our competition stream, but she’s not in an elite stream. I don’t teach elite gymnastics, but a gymnast who used to be at my club is eight or nine now, she is in the elite program and trains ~28 hours a week. (It’s mad, I know.)

I’m pretty sure that if someone is “deciding” they are deciding between national stream gymnastics and cheerleading, rather than between international stream gymnastics and cheerleading.

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