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The Russian Synchronized Swim Team Will Give You Nightmares For Days

The web roundup for Wednesday, August 8th. Be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See anything that should be on SportsGrid? Send it to tips@sportsgrid.com. Now, our starting five.

1. Synchronized swimming: terrifying.

The Russian synchronized swim team of Natalia Ischenko and Svetlana Romashina had “horror nerds aflutter,” and freaked us the hell out. [NYMag]

2. Marshawn Lynch has a corn maze in his backyard.

To be fair, if your nickname was “Beast Mode,” and you had tons of money, you’d probably do the exact same thing. [Busted Coverage]

3. Urban Meyer: insane person.

Urban Meyer is going to need to do a whole mess of drugs to live the double life he wants to live. [ESPN]

4. When wearing a $500K watch during an Olympic race…

…goes FABULOUS. [Styleite]

5. Not sports related, still important.

Who is NASA’s “Mohawk Guy?”; Billboard with dead bodies hanging off it freaks out everyone; Poor Prince Harry is constantly a third wheel; How some Redditors are peeping the naked pics women post privately on Photobucket.

What’s on TV.

Olympics: Track and field, women’s diving, beach volleyball, men’s volleyball (NBC, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.).
MLB: San Francisco at St. Louis (ESPN, 8 p.m.).

Food porn of the day.

Baked potato sandwich with cheese, chicken, and bacon. [Midtown Lunch]

And, finally tonight.

What a plane crash loks like from the cockpit. Don’t worry: everyone survived. (Crash happens a little after the 2:50 mark.) [LiveLeak, via Reddit]

Glenn Davis contributed to this post.

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