>>>>And to add to that, having such a one-man-show phenomenon, like Phelps, does somewhat bump up the gold score for the USA. There aren't other phenomena like him in other sports in other teams to likewise bump up their scores.
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>>>I'd put the Chinese diving team in this same category. They compete in 8 total events. So far they have 4 golds with 4 individual events to go.
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>>Their diving team is amazing, isn't it?
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>The running joke for my wife and I is to watch the various teams dive and then watch the Chinese to see "how it's supposed to look".

Have you noticed that after every pair of synchronized divers do their dives, there is always a shot of them rinsing off in the shower? Every single time. Someone in the broadcast booth must have a shower fetish ;-)