# Have to admit that dancing hurdler everyone is talking about is as cute as a button **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005 "2012-07-21T23:52:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/1 "2012-07-21T23:52:35Z")
This is[a video clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMgmYutL9W0) making the rounds. She’s way young relative to me, but I have to admit her little warming up dance turns is as cute as anything I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t hurt that she’s also an absolutely magnificent physical specimen. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/2 "2012-07-22T01:22:39Z")
She looks so happy! And, yeah. Fine physical specimen. I admire. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/3 "2012-07-22T01:32:49Z")
[Borat voice] She’s verrry, very nice! [/BV] ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/4 "2012-07-22T02:43:36Z")
[Check out this Spanish athlete’s warmup routine.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiIWVZUhwmo) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/5 "2012-07-22T14:19:53Z")
She appears to be fairly good, at running that is. She easily won her heat. But she isn’t going to be at the Olympics. Apparently placing 5th in the World Junior Championships and similar achievements doesn’t make her Olympic caliber. Marketing droids everywhere are disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/6 "2012-07-22T15:45:30Z")
Just wait until she grows up and loses all that baby fat. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/7 "2012-07-22T15:52:02Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Check out this Spanish athlete’s warmup routine.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiIWVZUhwmo) Yeowzaaa!! Sexy, baby, Sexy!! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/8 "2012-07-22T17:13:14Z")
She’d be hard to catch. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/9 "2012-07-22T17:41:27Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > She appears to be fairly good, at running that is. She easily won her heat. But she isn’t going to be at the Olympics.\*\* Apparently placing 5th in the World Junior Championships and similar achievements doesn’t make her Olympic caliber. > \*\* > Marketing droids everywhere are disappointed. Her best time for the event is 13.39. The Aus. Jr. record is 13.01. That’s an eternity at that level. The world record is 12.21. But yeah, cute as a button. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/10 "2012-07-22T17:53:29Z")
I apparently need to invest more heavily in buttons. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/11 "2012-07-22T17:54:21Z")
I’ve watched this video, and the one I posted in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=659366), way too many times this weekend. But at least the latter doesn’t make me feel like a dirty old man… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/12 "2012-07-22T18:00:33Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Her best time for the event is 13.39. The Aus. Jr. record is 13.01. That’s an eternity at that level. It wasn’t set on [this track](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7hrZiiqTc) by any chance, was it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/13 "2012-07-22T18:05:04Z")
I’d have posted sooner, but I’ve been watching the video for the past 3 hours… ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/14 "2012-07-22T21:47:50Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Check out this Spanish athlete’s warmup routine.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiIWVZUhwmo) WTF! I call this bait and switch, I didn’t expect to see something so appalling when clicking this. I mean you made me watch golf, come on! Saw the original clip on Yahoo the other day. She’s cute, although the writer for the article made it sound like she was dry humping the hurdle, not just adorably bouncing around. Not disappointed, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-to-admit-that-dancing-hurdler-everyone-is-talking-about-is-as-cute-as-a-button/629005/15 "2012-07-22T23:54:07Z")
That’s dancing? She’s jumping up and down and shimmying. It looks like she’s shaking off some pre-race jitters. She’s a cute girl, but that’s not the sexy dancing I expected.