...what the hell is up with men's synchronized diving? Like a lot of folks I have been watching the Olympics, and thoroughly enjoying them I might add. However, this week I was on a business trip with another guy to the DC area. We went to get a bite to eat for dinner and headed back to the hotel for a beer in the hotel bar. We sat down for our beer and, naturally, as it was about 2000, the Olympics were on the television. Good deal, right? Welllll, not so fast, I'm not sure what NBC was thinking, but they were showing men's synchronized diving...
First off, why is this even an Olympic sport? The Olympic Committee is eliminating baseball and softball, but you can still compete in synchronized diving -- a sport where judges decide who wins. Don't even get me started on the whole judging thing. As far as I'm concerned, any event that requires a judge to determine the winner -- like synchronized diving -- is not true sport. But, I digress.
Anyhow, so there we were; the guy I was traveling with, myself, and about eight other dudes -- there was not a woman in the room -- and we were watching guys in Speedos executing "synchronized" dives, and after every dive they would go take a shower -- TOGETHER! I gotta tell you, it was just uncomfortable, and every guy there was thinking: "This is totally gay." Not that there is anything wrong with that, but you be the judge...
