A Cheerleader Is Forced Into Doing Painful Splits
LANGFANG, HEBEI - JULY 04: Members of a Chinese cheerleading squads for the Olympic Games take part in a training session at a hot spring resort on July 4, 2008 in Langfang, southeast of Beijing, China. The cheerleading squad for New England Patriots of the NFL are also participating in the training to offer instruction to about 600 trainees from all parts of China who will take part in a variety of performances including, acrobatics, drum music, lion dance, martial arts during the Beijing Olympic Games. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images)
If you haven’t seen it, there’s cell phone video of a Denver high school cheerleader being forced to do the splits. And it looks PAINFUL. Other cheerleaders are holding her as the coach pushes her shoulders down . . . and she pleads with them to stop.
WATCH: Disturbing video shows a cheerleader being forced into doing a split as she repeatedly cries out in pain. pic.twitter.com/XaSglObWm1
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She tore a ligament and a muscle. Her parents sent the video to the school back in June but not much happened until the local news picked it up. Five school officials have been put on leave, including the cheer coach and the principal.
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