The US team was helped by the lack of Russian athletes.
US Synchronized Swimming Team / Photo: © Maddie Meyer / Staff / Getty Images Sports / Gettyimages.ru
The first medals in synchronized swimming were awarded at the Olympic Games in Paris. The Chinese team won the group championship. The Americans are in second place. The Spanish women took bronze.
Russia is a great power
Since 2000, Russian athletes have consistently won this discipline at the Olympics. But there are no Russian women in Paris, and now a place on the throne has become empty. And it is not surprising that Chinese women lived there. The Chinese team has always been the main rival of the Russian team.
– I would like to compete with the Russian team. “I believe that every team should have the opportunity to compete at the Olympics,” “Championship” Olympic champion Feng Yu said.
Silver went to the US team, which last stood on the podium in 2004. And to the third step. Now the Americans have replaced bronze with a nobler metal. Of course, if there is no Russian team, we can and should take advantage of this moment.
Of course, the Americans are happy with their financial success, but they understand everything very well.
– I want to be the best at the Olympics. It is best to learn from the strongest, watch the leaders. When they can come back, it will be interesting to watch them,” said one of the American synchronized swimmers Keana Hunter to the competition. The athlete did not specify who she meant when she said “the strongest” and “the leaders”. Everyone had already guessed.
But then Hunter did not beat the press and named the leaders in synchronized swimming in the world.
– As a child, I always watched the Olympic performances of the Russian team. And in general, not only from the Olympics, I really like their singles. They are such a force in our sport and move so beautifully. They’re very exciting,” Keana said.
Two natives from Russia were still participating in the competition. Alisa Ozhogina won a bronze medal as part of the Spanish national team. Anastasia Bayandina, who stood under the French tricolor, was left without a prize.
– The world of synchronized swimming is still watching the video and looking up to Russian athletes. It is not in vain yet, all these years of work, Olympic medals, gold at the World and European Championships. I would like to see them at championships,” said the French representative Bayandina in an interview with “Championship”.
On the hockey track
The USA Team won the final group stage at the home Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. Since then, Russian athletes have dominated and decided the vector of development in world synchronized swimming . And the sport itself, which was created in Canada, has become as Russian as ice hockey once was.
Have you noticed how different the synchronized swimming programs are at the Olympics and the World Aquatics Championships? At the Games, only two sets of prizes are played – in duets and in groups. Why not include solos, mixed pairs, and technical programs in the Olympic program? But then synchronized swimming becomes a medal-winning discipline. And it is clear who will get the most medals. It is not forever for the Russians to be absent from the Games.
2024-08-08 09:57:27
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