Published by Swiss James on 21 Aug 2008 at 04:39 pm
Saturday: Synchronised Swimming
Here is something I never thought I’d say: I can’t wait to watch the final of the Synchronised Swimming.
It seems the American team have employed Stephan Miermont- son of a dancer and a French Army General, Maverick, rule-breaker, enfant terrible of the nose-clip world. On Saturday Stephan is going to tear up the rulebook and turn the sport on it’s head with a routine he calls “Light”:
“There is light, then there is a boom and the light goes away and the swimmers must dance through the water searching for the light, trying to rebuild their broken world.
And in the end… the light returns and everything is beautiful.”
Since most of the chaotic routine involves swimmers that are not, umm, synchronised- the team may finish last, or even worse. Stephan isn’t bothered:
“I don’t really care about the score, we can’t control that. What I want is a standing ovation. If all the people who come to watch and see are standing up then it will be a success.”
15:00, Saturday 23 August
Watch it.
I’m not sure what to say. perhaps someone will enter the 100m sprint but rather than running, they’ll skip. they might not win but hey, what a spectacle/cunt. (delete as applicable) (sorry mrs creegan)
Isnt the olympics a sporting event not a festival of the creative arts?
I reckon they’re just rubbish at synchronised swimming. At least Eddie The Eagle Edwards had the decency to admit it and not explain away his abilities by pretending he was expressing his wants and desires through the medium of ski-jumping.
The fact that they are getting rid of Woman’s Softball (which really only pisses me off because my friend is on the team) after this year, but keeping this shite is ridiculous. Also, for the record . . . Bozzley’s kids are really cute.
Just an observation here . . . shouldn’t there be more skin involved in these outfits?
Kristi, I think you are confusing synchronised swimming and porn again. Even after the embarassing incident in the pool…
I bet the japs have got synchronised swimming porn, tentacles and all that kind of thing..
What about Christmas lights?
“Spain’s synchronised swimmers have been banned from wearing a swimsuit with embedded waterproof lights which they had hoped would give an extra sparkle to their Olympic routine”
http://tinyurl.com/5fdelz
Go figure…would rather watch women’s beach volleyball….now that is an outfit….
What next? Swimsuit saturdays?
If I was trimming down the Olympics I’d get rid of Boxing, Tennis, Football (bigger prizes are available for all of these), half of the pool events (it should just be fastest over 50, 100, 500 metres, any stroke is allowed), a lot of the shooting and sailing (come on, there’s too much) and Softball because it’s not a real sport.
Sync Swimming though? I’m waiting till Saturday before I decide.
and you would KEEP bmx??
it is pretty entertaining to watch though… the race track is based on mario kart i swear
Typical. I take the piss out of your boring techy comments yesterday and when I try and post a reply to this I get an error message and it’s all gone. It was something like this though…
Good idea about letting them use any stroke. What could they call it? How about “Free Style”? Oh, hang on…
How about bringing back the Tug of War? The Brits were good at it back in the day. And you don’t need any fancy pants equipment so even the 3rd worlders could have a nudge.
The new ones have been a hit with me - utter carnage in the BMX and the 10k swim. There’s all sorts of ankle biting, leg pulling and rib tickling goes on in the swimming.
As for events to bin off…… walking. What a load of rubbish.
it pains me to agree with owen, but he has a point - walking?! i mean really! i’d get rid of the baseball, softball, soccer (”football”), tennis and basketball. many of these team sports are just lame to watch during the olympics as the pros are not going to risk getting injured. so play is fairly soft.
Ah well, at least these are all actually sports, I mean they used to award medals in town planning (and lyrics):
http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2008/results/historical/events/51.htm
yeah walking goes- no question there.
Tug of war would be amazing- I’m just wondering if they got rid of it because sometimes there’s a dead lock that goes on for days.
Well yeah I know there’s a freestyle event- and everyone uses the same swimming stroke.
Why?
Because that one is always the fastest, so why bother with the others?
I dropped my serious demeanor for this list of 100 Olympic facts from the Guardian, it’s well funny, even though it’s not all supposed t be comedy.
here it is
here’s a sample:
I wonder if those swimmers know their coach doesn’t care if they get medals or not.
Swiss, you think the US teams swim was controversial, have a look at this, the government had to step in to stop France’s routine for Atlanta 1996:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E3D71F39F935A35755C0A960958260
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