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Synchro goes Bollywood

  • Sarah
  • 19 Mar 06, 03:18 AM

India's Avani Kardam Dave brought a touch of Bollywood glamour to the synchronised swimming final in Melbourne. The 15-year-old, who is India's first and only synchro swimmer, chose to perform her free routine to the Hindi song Badi Mushkil. Avani only took up synchro four months ago and practices in an outdoor pool at home in Mumbai. But because there is no underwater speaker her Canadian coach Leslie Sproule keeps rhythm by beating a spoon against the pool's metal railings. Meanwhile, South African swimmer Shannon Crowder opted to go Hollywood as she synchronised her swimming to the soundtrack to The Mask of Zorro.

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  • At 01:20 PM on 19 Mar 2006,
  • mspoke wrote:

Underwater speakers?!?!

Anybody know where I can get a set of these for my bath at home?

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