# Synchronized diving. Why not synchronized track & field? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/synchronized-diving-why-not-synchronized-track-field/460748 "2008-08-21T00:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/synchronized-diving-why-not-synchronized-track-field/460748/61 "2008-08-28T15:27:42Z")
[QUOTE=chappachula] okay, folks…why limit this thread to the summer olympics? 'Cause if you want stupid…look at the winter sports: Two-man luge: Huh? It’s two grown men laying on top of each other on top of a child’s sled. [/quote] Ah, but it’s two grown men on top of each other on a child’s sled moving at **high speed**! > [@](#): > > Four-man bobsled: four people crouching inside a box.The 1st guy in the front steers, the last guy in the back operates the brake—SO _what the fuck are the 2 guys in the middle doing_? > Well, I’ll tell you what they’re doing: they’re crouching down inside a box! > And that’s a world-class athletic ability that I’m supposed to respect… I don’t know what the two in the middle do either. Ballast? ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/synchronized-diving-why-not-synchronized-track-field/460748/62 "2008-08-28T15:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Ah, but it’s two grown men on top of each other on a child’s sled moving at **high speed**! [/QUOTE] Sounds like a hot gay date. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/synchronized-diving-why-not-synchronized-track-field/460748.md?page=3)