In an effort to pull synchronized swimming from the shower-drain of sports obscurity, a revamped governing body has declared May "Synchro de Mayo, " a push to expose newcomers to the sport through performances and free lessons.

WSJ: Synchro de Mayo: A Struggling U.S. Sport Throws Itself a Party

Bulgarians don't wait around much to see how their athletes do in Olympic figure-skating or tennis or synchronized swimming.

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But ahead of the London Games last summer, the U.S. failed to qualify as a team in the sport for the first time a low-water mark for a nation that dominated synchronized swimming from its glittery Olympic launch in 1984.

WSJ: Synchro de Mayo: A Struggling U.S. Sport Throws Itself a Party

The Chinese should collect three medals from the shooting range this weekend to go along with Yang's medal in swimming, a near-automatic gold in women's three-meter synchronized diving, as well as two of the three gold medals that will be awarded in weightlifting.

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