On point: Team China competing in the team acrobatics routine of the artistic swimming event. — AFP
CHINA won their first gold medal in artistic swimming at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday with a lively acrobatics team routine that wowed the judges and produced a total score well ahead of the United States, who took silver.
Russia, long the dominant force in artistic swimming, have been excluded from the Games and in their absence China pulled through to win gold, with the US taking silver and Spain claiming the bronze medal.
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