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Seven of our favourite sport-themed music videos

What do you get when you combine sport and music? Well, some of the most passionate videos around, for one. We round up some of our favourites from the action-packed world of sport-themed music videos, because it’s Monday and we can.

Yellowcard are the latest rockers to channel their love of sports into a new music video, giving us a thick slice of Ice Hockey drama in this video for Crash The Gates.

Yellowcard - Crash The Gates (Official Music Video)

Newcastle’s Boy Jumps Ship called in English Boxing Champ, Anthony ‘Babyface’ Nelson, to star in their  lastest video, Call To Arms. Ding, ding, ding!

Boy Jumps Ship - Call to Arms

Vampire Weekend‘s Giving Up The Gun features some seriously impressive cameos from Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lil’ Jon and RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. Oh, and there’s a tennis theme. Amazing.

Vampire Weekend - 'Giving Up The Gun' (Official Music Video)

Slip ‘n Slide isn’t an Olympic sport, but Ben Howard proves it probably should be with this video for Keep Your Head Up.

Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up

Bombay Bicycle Club show the beauty in synchronised swimming with their video for Luna. Swoon.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna (Official Video)

Our calculations can’t confirm just how many times people tried to recreate Ok Go‘s treadmill antics on Here It Goes Again, but we know it was a lot.

OK Go - Here It Goes Again (Official Music Video)

Then there’s that time Sum 41 fans took over a diving centre, as the Canadian rockers put their own spin on the tricky sport.

Sum 41 - In Too Deep (Official Music Video)