HUMOR: The little known sport of synchronized spooning originated in Canada and has been gaining popularity and professionalism there and in the northern United States. Will the long road to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver end in bed for synchronized spooners all over North America, where ambitious innovators have been refining the sport—or event, if you will—for more than a decade? Cozy, homey, unglamorous spooning has been developed into a competitive art, more like synchronized swimming than anything else. The bare bones of spooning is this: two people lying back to front execute increasingly intricate turns and rolls in perfect unison—without dislodging the blanket.