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Old 08-11-2008, 08:56 PM   #241
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I knew that sychronized diving is lame, but I'd never had such a strongly negative reaction to it before.

Then after about 10 minutes I realized that the female commentator has a voice that is a dead ringer for Nancy Grace. Apparently that produces a deep visceral and immediate hatred. Once I realized that I kept expecting her to say "and to have a chance at taking silver they need to average 6.5 and why did you kill your wife sir?!"


And speaking of subjective judging, it just strikes me as completely broken when two judges can look at the exact same thing and one gives a 4.5 on execution, as New Zealand on China's last two dives, while the Japan judge gives 9.0 on the same dives.
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