One of the creepiest events to watch has been the diving competition. Not because the sport is creepy. Actually the sport is surprisingly fun to watch.
No the female announcer, Cynthia Potter, has been very, very, very creepy. I mean after the 2004 Olympics where I had to suffer through the announcers repeatedly telling us about how the Hamm twins rolled in the hay as young boys (yech! I mean yech!!! I mean twins, hay, rolling.. YECH!!!) I was convinced the creepiness bar could never be surpassed.
No she surpassed it with her asinine comment on why the divers take a shower after each dive:
They just want to have fun.
I mean, what is this the car wash scene from Charlie’s Angels?
And her fawning over the athletes was down right lecherous. I mean, yech…
Of course the cameras which followed the men and women as they take a shower, and the pool that doesn’t have a wall to give them some privacy is just as creepy…
As the mother of a 1972 Olympic diver and the grandmother of a 2008 Olympic diver, I have watched a lot of diving and I have so appreciated and enjoyed Cynthia Potter’s commentaries since she began doing it. She explains the dives and talks so nicely about the divers and makes the event so interesting. I hope she continues to do it for many Olympics to come.
I am obviously not as closely associated to the sport of diving as you are.
So I am happy to hear that the fans of the sport like her. And your opinion matters far more than that of a once-every-four-years viewer of the sport.
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