9 peculiar summer Olympic sports that have been discontinued

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Solo synchronized swimming — 1992, Barcelona

Women's duet synchronized swimming has been part of the official Summer Olympics aquatics program since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. And for a while there, so was solo (yes, solo) synchronized swimming with top athletes, including Tracie Ruiz and Kristen Babb-Sprague (USA), Caroline Waldo (Canada) and Miwako Motoyoshi (Japan). Click here to witness as to why solo ... more 

Photo by: amriphoto

Solo synchronized swimming — 1992, Barcelona

Women's duet synchronized swimming has been part of the official Summer Olympics aquatics program since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. And for a while there, so was solo (yes, solo) synchronized swimming with top athletes, including Tracie Ruiz and Kristen Babb-Sprague (USA), Caroline Waldo (Canada) and Miwako Motoyoshi (Japan). Click here to witness as to why solo synchronized swimming was axed after the 1992 Summer Olympics and replaced with team synchronized swimming. Pretty ridiculous (yet oh-so-hypnotic) right? If the IOC ever decides to resurrect solo synchronized swimming from its watery grave at some point down the line (and we're not-so-secretly wishing they would), we definitely think they should open up the event to the fellas, mainly to this guy.

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