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Thread: Synchronized Swimming - "I just DON'T get it"

  1. 19th August 2008, 05:27 PM #1
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    Synchronized Swimming - "I just DON'T get it"

    Sorry to all fans of synchronized swimming but..."why is this 'sport' in the Olympics".



    .....enough said.
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    Well, I don't believe in the Olympics at all but as one of the commentators said they don't don't believe shot put has a place but who are they to take that enjoyment away from someone else considering it gets about 1 hour coverage every 4 years. I imagine that's just like the sync. swimming.
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    ladys beach vollyball is the only thing worth watching

    (so my teenage sons say)
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    Synchronised swimming.......Choreographed drowning more like, whereas the shot put has a lot of history and is a carryover from the ancient games.

    One likes what one does I suppose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    ladys beach vollyball is the only thing worth watching

    (so my teenage sons say)
    Brazillian ladies soccer team and Argentine ladies hockey team hard to watch too
    and Im not a teenager
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    OMFG! i was just saying the same thing to the wifey!
    me to wife... it really is a pointless sport! ( insert legs poking out of water flapping around)

    cheers phil
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy K View Post
    Sorry to all fans of synchronized swimming but..."why is this 'sport' in the Olympics".

    .....enough said.
    Ask the Yanks!

    They put it in for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, a throw back to US Olympic hopeful and LA native Esther Williams, who had a film career with the style.

    It was about the only sport they could find that had any theatrical association. They would have put in Movie Stardom as an Olympic Sport if they thought they could get away with it!

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    looks like they been sponsored by budweiser.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by dullbird View Post
    looks like they been sponsored by budweiser.....
    Budweiser and cosmetic dentistry. Have you seen whiter or more perfect choppers anywhere outside of Royal Randwick or Flemington on Cup Day?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
    Budweiser and cosmetic dentistry. Have you seen whiter or more perfect choppers anywhere outside of Royal Randwick or Flemington on Cup Day?
    actually if you stare at it long enough it looks like they are all wearing gum sheilds.....maybe they are not so good under water after all
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