IMPORTANT EDIT: If you’re seeing this for the first time, make sure to also check out our unnecessarily thorough follow-up, featuring GIFs, every picture we could find and some slow motion video. It’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.

Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke won heat 2 of the Women’s 100 metres hurdles at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona over the weekend, and if you watch the following video closely you’ll take away three major observations:

1. Michelle Jenneke is good at hurdles.
2. Michelle Jenneke is smoking hot.
3. Michelle Jenneke is the only thing your brain will let you think of when Michelle Jenneke is dancing.

While everyone else is stretching out and concentrating, Michelle starts go-go dancing. The announcers mention how she’s “certainly having fun”, and then she kills everybody at the hurdles. When she wins, she hugs everyone and waves at the crowd.

If you watch this clip and don’t love Michelle Jenneke, please consult your physician.

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… just not very good ones.

Less than two weeks after crashing through the final turn of the Indianapolis 500 (while in the lead), rookie IndyCar driver JR Hildebrand tore the ACL in his right knee while trying to clear hurdles during a promotional event. The final hurdle. If you need proof that God exists and has a sense of humor, watch this poor guy keep trudging through life with one leg and half a car.

From RacinToday.com (and that’s not a typo, it’s actuallly racin’, and I’m totally going to start a blog called RasslinToday.edu):

Hildebrand’s knee broke the top board upon contact, and the 23-year-old Californian stumbled to the ground on a grassy lot outside the Lone Star Tower condominiums.

Hildebrand remained on the ground for several minutes catching his breath, as the outside of his left knee appeared to swell. TMS public relations staffers provided Hildebrand with some cold towels and ice from a nearby cooler to wrap the knee. Hildebrand was able to stand and walk to a nearby SUV, which reportedly transported him to the track’s Infield Care Center.

To put this into perspective, here’s an excerpt from the hat tip article on From The Marbles:

Last year, NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin tore his left ACL playing pickup basketball. Hamlin attempted to hold off on having surgery until the end of the season but opted for surgery in the spring after the pain became too great. Hamlin finished second to Jimmie Johnson for the Sprint Cup championship.

So I guess he’ll be fine, he’ll just have to push the gas with his other foot.

In case you haven’t been reading With Leather very closely over the last week (and hey, it happens), we’ve been doing another fantasy baseball promotion with DraftStreet.com, mostly so I could avenge my 50th-something place finish in the first game. Well, thanks to David Price and my slavish devotion to the Cleveland Indians, I finished a whopping 134th overall. No, seriously. I could’ve selected players based on how handsome I think they are and finished better. I could’ve picked players whose names start with G. It wouldn’t have mattered.

Here are your top five finishers:

1. gperih – 76.2 points
2. JM80 – 65.45 points
3. Daern – 63.7 points
4. Bnelson2 – 63.5 points
5. Kid Kash & Dash – 62.55 points
134. bthompsonstroud -21.05 points

Humiliating. Funny enough, 134th is only two spots higher than the Indians finished last year. Here are some links. Blerg.

Sports

UFC 130 Gif Party - Since I only seem to cover fight sports where the people don’t really hit each other, here’s a bunch of gifs from UFC 130 courtesy of our friends at Cage Potato, and yeah, they are pretty much straight up hitting each other. I think one guy gets his face bashed in with a fire extinguisher. [Cage Potato]

This Epic Hurdle Fail Is Painful to Watch - I don’t think there’s a faster way to get someone to click a link than the words “epic hurdle fail.” Is there a non-epic type of hurdle fail? The saddest part of this video is that she was doing so well. I know what it’s like, lady, this happens to me every time I use the Power Pad. [BroBible]

Me, on Twitter - Last night I twote a Tweet about Basketball Wives. This is the kind of thing you should be following. [Twitter]

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You probably don’t remember those really terrible high school hurdlers from November, but they had a second shot at athletic glory on “Tosh.0″ earlier this week. It says a lot about this show that the two best jokes in the whole skit are a quip about a nickname of one of the girls and a sight gag at the end. And yet people are creaming themselves over this show. “Oh, man! It’s all the stuff from the internet, but on TV!”

I would totally get my own TV show if I wasn’t fat, bald and so disdainful of makeup.

I've never understood the hurdles. What does jumping over obstacles that are exactly equidistant prove anyway? It would be much more exciting and entertaining if they staged this event at a house party. As the cops rushed in to break up the shindig, we could see what world-class hurdlers could really do on the uneven terrain and different fence heights of a suburban neighborhood. If you win, you get a gold medal; if you lose, you have to call your parents from the hoosegow. I bet Edwin Moses would fare much better than I did in this sport in high school. -KD