Yeah, I remember when they gave a big description of it in an earlier Olympics. The control even just an individual competitor has to have to do those moves, and then they have to match exactly another swimmer or several swimmers....and be under the water upside down for most of the time while doing it.
By the way, on an unrelated topic, Guatemala just won its first medal ever (silver or bronze), in race walking. I love it when new countries join the club!
I get mad when people say synchronized swimming isn't a sport.
Spain was great in duos! They actually did a synchronized tango to tango music. (Of course no one was going to catch the Russians.)
This is another sport, like figure skating and gymnastics, that got much harder technically in a big hurry, but at the expense of being less pretty than in days of yore.