Baseball vs Synchronized Diving

So baseball and softball are being discontinued after these olympics, but we are left with synchronized diving?

Why? Because they don't play baseball in Mozambique, Andorra, or Laos, but 8 people synchronize dive in those places?

How many thousands of baseball players are there in Venezuela, Japan, or The Netherlands Antilles as opposed to synchronized divers?

Bet they have some pretty big stadiums in Bhutan and Lesotho to accomodate the throngs of adoring fans for synchronized diving.

Maybe I am just "too American" to realize that synchronized diving is a more universally recognized sport.

Give me a freakin' break.

PS- The haze over Beijing is not smog, but dust from the Gobi desert brought in by the wind. We shouldn't say Beijing has smog. We might hurt someone's feelings.