Rhythmic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport due to a deal we cut with the Soviets. They wanted a trash sport to pad their medal count, so we agreed to allow it if we could get a trash sport to pad ours. And so Synchronized Swimming became an Olympic sport too.
Years ago when I was between marriages I used to go to a local municipal golf course and play as a single. One Saturday afternoon, I got paired with a nice young man and his father-in-law. We were all decent players and got to chatting during a typical backup at the first par three hole and were discussing Olympic sports since it was not long until the Summer games I forget where. Anyway, I was mocking the newish event called Synchronized Swimming and the young man blushed. He told me that his mother was the head of the team and instrumental in lobbying for it’s inclusion. I told him I was sorry but I really wasn’t. The father-in-law winked at me behind the young man’s back and I figured he thought it was a crock of shit, too.