The U.S. has The Family Dumais, a dynasty of male divers prone to winning medals at any international competition they appear at. From the 3m springboard to the 10m platform, The Family Dumais individually and in pairs dominate any apparatus they compete from. As talented as each of the five brothers are, nothing is as awe inspiring as when they compete together. Because nothing says synchronicity like two powerfully built male divers, an exact replica of each other in every way except for age, height, weight, build, hair color, musculature, skin tone color, body hair, sexuality, and how well they fill out their respective swimsuits where it counts (they don’t call Troy ‘Big Brother’ just because he’s the oldest).

In Singapore they have the Lee clan. And amongst those 850,000 family members, two stand out as internationally fielded divers, the very synchronicity of sharing the same date of birth (not to mention parental units) fating them to compete often as a pair, two gorgeously toned male bodies of the same height, same build, same beautifully tanned brown skin, same birth date, same parents, identical in every way except that it looks like Timothy tends to dress to the right while brother Mark prefers to dress to the left. So aligned are the two that earlier this year the Singapore Swimming Association named them the Diver of the Year, a rare honor that few individuals ever merit. Much less two of them.

And like with the almost interchangeable five member diving team of The Family Dumais, the Lee clan’s diving duo share with each other their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations, and occasionally a urinal. So much so that when Tim was asked what his ambitions were during an interview with Today On Line in 2013, Mark answered, “To compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.” And we hope he sees their wish come true.

But what differentiates these two iconic families of diving is that only the Lee brothers will be competing at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon because sadly, as different and unrelated as each of the five Dumais appear, none of them look Asian. One can only hope that when Ma & Pa Dumais decide to make Brother #6 they’ll churn out a Chinese diver to add to their family’s diving board so that one day the USA too can go for the gold at the Asian Games. Or perhaps when Troy and Kristian Ipsen marry, they’ll adopt a baby from Cambodia.

The 20-year-old diving brothers and their twin peaks will be scoring in Incheon at the 17th Asian Games and are expected to medal. While the duo only placed 10th at the 2014 World Cup in Shanghai, at the Asiancentric Asiad there chances are greater. And with their silver medal win at the 2013 South East Asian Games on the 3M springboard, followed by this year’s gold medal win at that competition, Singapore is expecting the pair to rack up a win for the country which has never medalled in diving at the Asian Games, primarily because they’ve never qualified an athlete in the sport. That’s assuming China’s dynasty of its diving brothers, Chao and Chong He, continue to compete against instead of with each other at international events.

Mark’s silver medal win at the 2013 SE Asian Games on the 3m springboard marked the first diving medal for Singapore at those games since 1985 (Timothy placed 4th). In individual events the two usually come in one behind the other with Timothy most often coming out on tops. So that answers that question too. But then Timothy has more experience, he switched to diving from gymnastics in August 2009, Mark the following January. And as the under-performer of the pair Mark says Timothy, who is Singapore’s national champion on both the 1m and 3m springboard, has to perform a simpler dive that he too can do. Possibly even more so since Mark hurt his foot during training at the end of last month, an injury that resulted in surgery for the young diver that afternoon.

As perfectly paired as the twins appear, they’re not identical. Even though they are identical twins. Mark is about a tenth of an inch taller than his brother and 3/4 of a pound heavier too (not that around 140 pounds when you’re almost 6′ in height that that really matters). And while both say Bubble Tea is their favorite indulgence, Timothy claims local desserts run a close second while brother Mark says its all about durian. Both are students at Singapore Polytechnic, where Timothy is majoring in Aeronautical Engineering. Mark’s studies revolve around Sports Science, which sounds like his career will be as a personal trainer. And ya know what that means. But then since we already established Mark as the bottom, that shouldn’t be any surprise.

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