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Video: UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi’s floor routine earns perfect million Twitter views
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UCLA’s Katelyn Ohashi made sticking a flawless landing after nailing three backflips and landing into a split look like pure fun, and the crowd lapped it up. Katelyn Ohashi: 'A 10 isn't enough'. Flawless gymnastics
Ohashi, who debuted the routine in UCLA’s season opener against Nebraska, recorded her fourth perfect 10 of her career last Saturday as UCLA scored 49.7 on floor, the fifth-highest mark in school history on the event, and recorded the team’s second straight 197-point total.
The defending national champion Bruins scored 197.7 as a team with Ohashi and junior Kyla Ross both recording perfect 10s with Ross’ coming on uneven bars.
Ohashi’s latest R&B-inspired floor routine that incorporates Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” with “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire, The Jackson 5′s “I Want You Back” and Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel,” quickly grew into a weekend internet sensation. It was shared on Twitter by ESPN and Bleacher Report. It was viewed nearly 20 million times on Twitter by Monday morning and more than 3 million times on Facebook.
California senator Kamala Harris, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and journalists from the Atlantic’s Jemele Hill and Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith were among those who showered Ohashi with praise on social media.
Hill said she was making a note to attend a meet this year. Ohashi responded that she’ll have tickets waiting.
