Synchronized Swimming on Led Zeppelin
The Spanish synchronized swimming team won the gold medal at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, back in 2009, by performing a routine over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”.
Their performance was beautiful and addictive!
You couldn’t take your eyes off of them even if you wanted to!
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They managed to leave everyone in awe and they went home with the big prize.
According to icreative.am, perhaps one of the most underrated sports around is synchronized swimming. Also known as water ballet, the sport combines grace and artistry with strength, endurance, and flexibility. The women who compete are known to perform their routines with classical music, but the Spanish team in the video below decided to mix it up a little bit.
Interestingly enough, the sport is rife with outdated rules. To this day, men are barred from entering the Olympics on a synchronized swimming team. The sport has always highlighted entertainment over athleticism, but that should not be the case. It requires an incredible degree of athleticism, as does traditional ballet, and should not be belittled in any way.
The Spanish swimmers in the video below are the renegades of the synchronized swimming world. Instead of performing to the standard classical tune, they decided to swim to the rock ‘n’ roll anthem by Led Zeppelin, “Stairway To Heaven.”
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The song starts soft and slowly only to pick up the tempo in true Zeppelin style.
These incredible athletes earned the gold medal for this routine for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.
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