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My Olympic moment with Suzannah Bianco

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Suzannah Bianco wasn’t sure where her career in synchro would take her until she heard about a certain watery Cirque show casting for the Strip.
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Suzannah (front left) and the rest of the 1996 U.S. Olympic synchronized swimming team poses with their gold medals.

“I had given everything I could. I was so tired at the end of that performance. I remember thinking two-thirds of the way through, ‘I think we warmed up too much, but it’s too late now.

“[The routine] was a risk in its difficulty, and it was definitely cutting edge in its difficulty. We have these things in synchronized swimming called lifts, where we lift one girl entirely out of the water, and our first one in training had been falling right and left. That was the first thing we did and we nailed that, which was great. And we had two more right at the very end after a long figure, and those went off really well. You have to give 100 percent. There’s no option for slacking or being tired, you have to do it.” Suzannah Bianco, who performs in “O” at the Bellagio, was a gold medalist in synchronized swimming in the 1996 Olympics.

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