'Inspiring' figures
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Cheerleaders are a very important part of sports, seeing as they can sometimes help inspire their teams to victory.
Each year, we see a number of new cheerleaders grace the stage, and we've decided to pick out our favourites (so far) from 2012.
Click on the photos above to see the cheerleaders.
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