Sorry, but

[dallastx]

synchronized swimming is the stupidest thing ever in the Olympics.

 

[darius]

Why isn't ballroom dancing an Olympic sport? Same thing, only in water.

 

[basketsofhorns]

I personally love ballroom dance and UT does have a dance team that competes in ballroom, but my hat's off to these women in synchronized swimming. It's the "in the water" part that is pretty amazing. Throwing other swimmers without being able to touch the bottom of the pool? Holding your breath for that long and swimming upside down (legs out of the pool) while in sync with the team around you? I'm sorry, but that even beats the women in ballroom dance who have to do everything the man does, but backwards and in high heels.

 

[darius]

I'm uncomfortable with any Olympic "sport" where different judges can have different opinions about who won. Much cleaner to award gold medals to the people who score the most points, finish first in a race, jump highest or farthest, and lift the most weight.

 

[Third Coast]

I love it all. Go

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[Hook 'Em Danno]

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[Hu_Fan]

The synchronized swimming this year reminded me of this....

A Tim Burton production of French mimes rap dancing to Stravinsky,
to emulate Piranha fish having fun when not feeding on the carcass of a water buffalo,
but playing like they are.

Would be okay if it were more like ballet, but true to modernization of things, the women now feel they have to 'jerk' and 'splash' and flop and go fast-fast-fast-fast as they can and flip and flop all over the place.

It's the same as dance throughout culture. It's all about jittery fast jerky acrobatics. In certain terms, it's short choppy waves instead of long undulating waves.

It's the same now with sex scenes in movies. Contact is made, suggestion is insinuated... Fast Edit To.. next scene with two bodies slamming doors, against walls, stumbling, falling over furniture, tables, knocking **** all over the place, ripping shirts open, up, down, tearing, grasping...

This is just two women splashing in water, but it's not that much different from pop dance to videos, street dancing and movie sex scenes.

Pop culture has decided it's more fun to be flipping skipping hopping flying jumping... whether skateboard, wakeboard, bike... Maybe it's what goes on in the realm of elementary particles... inside Quarks, and downtown where String Theory dwells.

 

[HoffHorn]

What Danno said but add in canoe racing as well! WTF! And I luv " most of the Olympics". Leo Manzano = one of the greatest Longhorn or USA results of all time! Look it up!

 

[Mesohorny]

So....they give Olympic medals to grown men riding little boys' bicycles, but no women's softball?