Synchronized diving. Why not synchronized track & field?

[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.
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Ah, but it’s two grown men on top of each other on a child’s sled moving at high speed!

I don’t know what the two in the middle do either. Ballast?

[QUOTE=photopat]
Ah, but it’s two grown men on top of each other on a child’s sled moving at high speed!
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Sounds like a hot gay date.