Today’s silly sport at the
Olympics was the synchronised diving that appears to be a grown-up version of
jumping into the pool while holding hands with your mate, and in which you seem
to get more marks if both divers cock up the dive in the same way than if one gets it right and the other wrong –
maybe it will catch on in athletics with medals going to the long-jumpers who
achieve exactly the same distance or to the two marathon runners who come in
last but have run side by side for twenty-six miles; the mirrored diving may
look pretty on TV and it did get GB a bronze but I preferred the reassuringly
physical tackling and competitive nature of the women’s rugby sevens even if it
ended with a disappointing fourth place for our lasses.
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