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For heaven's sakes. If golf can be an Olympic event, those that actually require extreme continuous physical athleticism should. Olympics have long balanced classical sporting events with more artistic events, albeit very athletic artistic events. Synchronized swimming might likewise seem too artistic for some tastes, but is one of the older modern Olympic events--first appearing in LA in 1984.

Actually, I am all in favor of including power tumbling. My former DIL has a brother who started out in gymnastics but for various reasons switched to power tumbling and earned numerous awards in that before retiring from the sport. I watched some of it when the Nationals came to Knoxville and was enthralled by the athleticism.

As for synchronized swimming, while I don't like the costumes and makeup a lot, I can see it as a sport a lot more than rhythmic gymnastics. (At least pairs. More than that is an Esther Williams movie.) All that holding your breath and underwater movement is more akin to water polo than rhythmic is to artistic gymnastics, IMNSHO. There's a big difference. Oh, and I purely don't get golf. But that's me.

Her parents are Mizrahi Jews, from Yemen and Greece.

Eta the ROC was worse:

The least she could have done was shake Linoy Ashram's hand. Linoy approached her and was ingored.

I still don't get why any Russians were allowed to participate. Not much of a penalty for doping if your athletes can still compete.

I guess the rationale was something like, "Well, none of these athletes were involved." Yeah, sure, Boris. Doping is as Russian as borscht. They're just finding new ways to do it.

What was the deal about the knot in the ribbon? I couldn’t even hardly see the ribbon, let alone a knot.

I missed all the tears and drama, I guess.

Russia and the GQP are serial cheaters.