"Gather 'round, friends, for it is time to play my favorite newly invented game of the Winter Olympics. The game is called "Are The Fellas In Sync," and the way you play this game is by scrolling through Getty Images photos from Team Pursuit Speedskating and asking yourself a simple question: A re these three fellas (gender-neutral) before me truly, honestly, and existentially in sync? We'll start off with an easy round."
"In team pursuit speedskating, a sport in which two teams of three skaters skate laps starting on opposite ends of the track until one team gets all three skaters across the finish line, synchronization does not happen right off the bat. Getting in sync takes time. It takes around five to six seconds for the fellas to synchronize their arms and legs, and around 10 seconds for the fellas to reach out and tenderly clasp the lower back of the skater before them."
An observational game judges whether trios of team pursuit speedskaters appear synchronized in Getty Images photos. Round 1 profiles German skaters Patrick Beckert, Fridtjof Petzold, and Felix Maly; their arms flap in different directions in an early-race shot. Full synchronization takes roughly five to six seconds for arms and legs and about ten seconds for back-holding, so the German trio are not synchronized in that moment. Round 2 features Chinese skaters Hanbin Liu, Yu Wu, and Zhongyan Ning; their red outfits, matching arm positions, and leg markings create visual alignment that emphasizes unit movement, though alignment alone may not equal true synchronization.
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