Sunday, August 15, 2004

WHAT WOULD GREG LOUGANIS DO? As painful as watching PTI with Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless is, the true agony of sports-watching right now is Olympic synchronized diving.

When I first heard the term "synchronized diving", I thought it could be something cool -- one diver bounces high, one bounces low, they meet in mid air, do a flip, and land separately. Or there's props involved. Or one goes up to the platform to do the Triple Lindy and the other tosses up a flaming baton for the first diver to juggle while plummeting. Or one's perched on the other's shoulders and they dive together.

But no. Instead it's just "watch two people do the same dive at the same time." Yawn. It's pretty, I guess, but so what? Even at its best, it just looks very Ace and Gary, but that doesn't make it a sport. Does it?

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