Synchro for Dummies

I agree completely with the author. Synchro-swimming is a real sport, just like synchro-diving is, but please let them lose the make-up and the silly outfits!! Only then will the sport, which now can be watched under water, be taken seriously.

Wow. Obviously you are not an athlete of any kind to feel you have what it takes to decide what should and shouldn't be a sport. Not only is there physical strength (weight) training, there is endurance training (running, sit ups, push ups) and dance training. Now get into the water for basic strenght and endurance by swimming and treading water. Only now do you begin the actual team synchronization part of the choreography. I am sorry you are so uninformed about this sport. By the way, the next time you are near a pool, jump in without making a splash and try to gracefully present more of your body above water than underneathe...and call me. I want to watch!!

Whatever silly definition one wants to use for a sport, synhronised swimming should not be an Olympic sport. Its inclusion diminishes many of the other team and individual sports. Difficulty is no criterion. Balancing a ping-pong ball on your nose while noisily passing wind is pobably difficult, but I do not see that frat-house sport as an Olympic event.

Forget silly definitions of "sport" synchronized swimming simply should NOT be an Olympic event. Its inclusion makes a mockery of of many of he team and individual events. Whether it is difficult is immaterial. Balancing a tennis ball on the end of your nose while noisily passing wind is (I suspect) difficult, but it is not (yet) an Olympic sport.