Everything mawkish, mundane, moronic, and mindless in the world of sport can be seen here as Russia's Svetlana Romashina and Natalia Ishchenko compete in the duets free routine preliminary round during the synchronized swimming competition at the London 2012 Olympics on Aug. 6.
If this keeps up people will soon try to compete in Solo synchronised swimming.... Oh, wait! It was only back in 1992 that:
This exercise in stupidity sneaked its way on to the O-list in 1984, only to be cast out in 1992. Perhaps this had something to do with the fact that one lonely person floating in a pool could never, would never, be in sync with anyone else (pedants maintain that it's the choreography that is synchronised with the music). Whatever, it's no big loss, and the strange smiles, nose clips and pointless treading of water linger on, courtesy of the two- and eight-person team events.Between Olympics I manage to forget about synchronized swimming of the solo, duo, and team kind. Then it all comes swimming back into my mind and it is always, voila!, even more insidiously creepy than I remember it. Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 6, 2012 4:57 PM
Why are you cutting slack on Rhythmic Gymnastics?
Posted by: Fat Man at August 6, 2012 5:57 PMRhythmic Gymnastics? Difficult to practice autoeroticism to, but not impossible.
Posted by: vanderleun at August 6, 2012 6:19 PMAnd there's no baseball. But they have badmitten, and dual diving homos.
Posted by: Casca at August 6, 2012 7:54 PMThis is so Special Olympics.
Posted by: mushroom at August 6, 2012 8:43 PMMaybe this will erotically autoasphyxiate you then, Gerard! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4122944961711350389
I knew that I would lose that last comment to the spam-eater, Gerard. HEH!
Posted by: Jewel at August 6, 2012 9:31 PMI forget which British Wag said:
"And synchronized diving seems more an elegant homosexual suicide pact than a sport.",
but I never forgot the quote!
Posted by: Gray at August 6, 2012 9:41 PMGray- Thanks for that hilarious quote! It is perfect! Two guys synchronized diving was a creepy channel changer!
Posted by: pink lady at August 7, 2012 5:26 PMThere should be a better place to post this, but this is a good time to remember that in 1980 the US boycotted the Olympics because the Soviets were occupying Afghanistan.
Posted by: Bill Jones at August 7, 2012 7:39 PMCasca, I'm with you on the synchro diving and the lack of baseball, but badminton outside of North America is a very different animal. Our version is typically a family picnic activity, played incompetently by a couple of 10-year-olds and their overweight uncle who's had a few too many beers. Elsewhere, it's a real sport played by well-conditioned athletes who hit the birdie at up to 160mph.
Posted by: waltj at August 7, 2012 8:53 PMAnd for those of you who think the Police State here is bad, there's this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/08/olympics-spectator-parkinsons-arrest-smiling
Olympics spectator with Parkinson's wants 'exoneration' after arrest
Mark Worsfold, 54, says he was handcuffed by Surrey police officers 'for not smiling' while watching men's cycling road race
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