Here’s the deal: you can wear glittery sequence on your suit during a synchronized swimming routine, but once you start adding actual lights and batteries to your swimsuit, then expect the IOC to charge in and say, “Joder! Que hatheth?”

“It got very sophisticated because obviously the battery doesn’t last long and then we had to look at circuits and interrupters, so we have been working on it around two months with a crack team,” swimmer Andrea Fuentes said.

“It looks a bit like Christmas lights,” added the Spaniard, one half of the team that won silver at the last world championships and are favourites for a medal in Beijing.

Wait a minute. Lights underwater: check. Batteries underwater: check. Admitting you have a “crack” team trying to solve your crazy swimsuit: check. The general Spanish Olympic team hasn’t been making the brightest decisions lately, have they?

Synchronized-swimming lights off for Spain [Yahoo]
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