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Sport images of the day: Our picture editor's selection for March 23

Published: 11:46 EDT, 23 March 2014 | Updated: 12:22 EDT, 23 March 2014

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Each day, MailOnline's sport picture editor will select his favourite pictures from the wide and wonderful world of sport. Today's gallery features high-flyers and a marathon on ice, epic mountain biking, a hero's welcome for the Scottish League Cup winners and baseball at the SCG.

In a tangle: Israel's Victoria Filanovski performs with the clubs in the individual competition of the GAZPROM World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics in Stuttgart

Bat and ball: Major League Baseball reached the Sydney Cricket Ground over the weekend with the Los Angeles Dodgers beating the Arizona Diamondbacks twice

You're it: Dodgers batter Yassiel Puig (left) is tagged out at first by Diamondbacks' Aaron Hill in their Major League clash at the SCG

Track of dreams: It's time for work at first light in Middleham, North Yorkshire, where horses have been trained for more than 200 years - there are currently 15 stables

Stacks on: It looks like a brawl but this is Denver celebrating on top of goalie Sam Brittain their win over Miami in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference tournament

Big boppers: Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (right) shoots with some tight attention from Detroit Pistons forward Greg Monroe - Clippers won 112-103

Moutain tour: Riders climb a hill during the prolog of the annual ABSA Cape Epic mountain bike stage race in Cape Town - it's known as the Tour De France of off-roading

Air up there: Japan's Yuki Ito takes flight during the women's FIS World Cup skijumping final event in Planica in Slovenia

Holding on: German Moto3 rider Philipp Oettl clings onto his bike as he crashes out during free practice at the Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha

Oerfect form: Great Britain's Tom Daley competes in the Men's 10m platform semi final during the FINA/NVC Diving World Series in Dubai where he came fourth

Streaks: Russia's Olga Graf (left) races Dutch skater Diane Valkenburg in the 500m event at the Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen

Tough ice: Runners in the Baikal Ice Marathon, which is exactly what it sounds like, 42km across the completely frozen surface of the Earth's oldest freshwater lake