What can I say: I like results! Sure some athletes have more interviews, more Wheaties boxes, and more Teen Beat covers, but in the end I want someone who can bring home the Gold. If he's serious about his work, fine. And if he comes as part of a matched set, I say the more the merrier! That's why, today, China's Gold Medal-winning 3m Springboard Synchronized Divers Qin Kai and Wang Feng are my Olympic Boyfriends of the Day.
Intense in practice, serious on the springboard, yet light-hearted in victory: they know how to let down their "Great Wall of concentration" when the competition ends: they laugh and cheer, they hug, and they shower together on worldwide network television.
And how about a cheer for this sport of synchronized diving? This sport lets everyone at home be an armchair judge: no need to learn a bunch of arcane rules, just match 'em up and if they're different they lose! It's as if an Olympic sport had been made out of the old
Highlights For Children magazine "What's the difference between these two pictures?" game, except that now that we're adults the pictures are perfectly built Greek Gods in tiny Speedos! Zeus be praised -- let's start by finding the differences in the picture below:
Intense in practice, serious on the springboard, yet light-hearted in victory: they know how to let down their "Great Wall of concentration" when the competition ends: they laugh and cheer, they hug, and they shower together on worldwide network television.
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