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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. But regardless of the original impetus the IOC declined my request to speak with Bach , synchro has lost the identity it had for more than eight decades.
Now many athletes worry they could also lose the respect they spent so long earning from skeptics. Curtis saw competitive potential for this new swimming style and, in , oversaw the first meet between teams. Within two years, synchro gained full acceptance by the Amateur Athletic Union, officially cementing it as a competitive sport.
Read: Watching Olympic skateboarding among 20 skeptical, aging skateboarders. While Curtis and others were moving aquatic performance in a more athletic direction, the American impresario Billy Rose saw an opportunity to link the chorus-girl aesthetic popularized by the Ziegfeld Follies with the rising interest in water-based entertainment. By mid-century, synchronized swimming was a growing international sport with Olympic ambitions.
Leaders within the sport took steps to distance it from its water-ballet cousin, discouraging theatrical costumes and props and making scoring more technical and less subjective.
They organized Olympic exhibitions, starting at the Helsinki Games, to raise awareness of the sport. Olympic induction seemed to be just around the corner. Routines and movements are faster, lifts and throws have become ever more acrobatic and daring, and athletes spend many more hours per day in training. At the same time, scoring continues to evolve. Posted 30 March 30 Mar. Attribution Sport. Posted 28 June 28 Jun Posted 26 April 26 Apr Posted 19 April 19 Apr Attribution World.
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