6 lost Olympic sports-tug-of-war to pigeon shooting
06:55, 28 July 2012
NEW YORK. July 28. KAZINFORM The seemingly oxymoronic sport of solo synchronized swimming is just one of a gaggle of lost, generally unlamented activities you won't see at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Practiced above by U.S. Olympian Kristen Babb Sprague in Barcelona in 1992-solo synchronized swimming's third and last Olympic year-the discipline isn't as odd as it sounds. Technically speaking, it's the music, not other athletes, that the swimmers are supposed to be in sync with.
While the sport-still practiced competitively in other venues-does require tremendous flexibility and stamina, many viewed it as something of a joke, Kazinform cites National Geographic.
"It's just sort of making pretty figures in the water," said Bill Mallon, a past president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. "Like floor exercises while you're floating-jumping, toes pointed, spins, smiling, waving your arms."
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