Irrelevance Glorified

I, in general, possess a lot of empathy. I can look at situations, or issues, and see how other people think and why they support the positions they do. Unlike some of the unwashed masses, I can see why olympic events such as synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics do showcase talent and are worthy of our adulation.

Not so much with synchronized diving.

I’ve been watching the Olympics the last few nights, and really, synchronized diving seems pretty worthless. It seems that you perform exactly the same dives as you would in individual diving….but you just copy someone else as well. There’s really nothing special about it, and frankly I’m just stunned that it’s a medal worthy sport when, say, cricket isn’t.

The only nice thing about synchronized diving that I can think of is that it’s fairly steroid and cheater proof, unless someone out there uses Siamese Twins or something.

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