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Birmingham gymnasts are having a flippin’ good time for Sport Relief

A team of gymnasts from Birmingham put their own spin on the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile with back-flips, somersaults and cartwheels around their sports hall.

The youngsters aged nine to 16 years, from City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club in Perry Barr, took time out from their training to prove you don’t need to run the Sport Relief Mile but can add your own personal “twist” to taking part.

Dressed in Sport Relief T-shirts, Socks and Deeley Boppers, the team raced against each other around the gym with high flying spins in the air and even back-flipped over the finish line.

Phil Barrow, Gymnastic Development Officer, at City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club, was thrilled with his team’s performance. Phil says: “Our gymnasts had a really great time creating their own version of the Sport Relief Mile. They’re currently hard at work training for the next regional and national gymnastics competition so it was nice to have this break and get involved in something so quirky and fun, that’s what Sport Relief is all about! We’re hoping to sign our team up to do the Mile in Birmingham, and hopefully thousands more people will also get into the spirit by taking part in the Birmingham Mile, but perhaps they’d prefer to run or walk than back-flip it!”

This year, over one million people are expected to pull up their Sport Relief socks and take part in the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile to raise vital funds for vulnerable people right here in Birmingham, across the UK and in the world’s poorest countries. Enter the Birmingham Mile, or one of dozens of Mile events happening all over the West Midlands, right now at http://www.sportsrelief.com/