Russia wins synchro team gold at Olympics

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Russia wins synchro team gold at Olympics

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Russia won the synchronized swimming team gold medal at the London Games.

11 August,2012 05:24 am

Jumping high above the water, Russia soared to the top of the medals podium again in synchronized swimming at the London Games.The sports dominant power won the team gold medal on Friday its fourth consecutive team victory and sixth straight overall gold in the Olympics.The Russians earned 98.930 points for a free routine featuring swimmers doing acrobatic flips and pirouetting like ballerinas above the water. Having already won the team technical competition, they totaled 197.030.I am very happy that we managed to get the result with the girls and that we carried on the tradition of synchronized swimming, swimmer Anastasia Davydova said through a translator.The team of Davydova, Maria Gromova, Natalia Ishchenko, Elvira Khasyanova, Alexandra Patskevich, Svetlana Romashina, Anzhelika Timanina and Alla Shishkina swam in black, red and gold suits featuring a spider web design on the back.The theme was a lost world like a big spiders net, Patskevich said. We wanted people to get the goosebumps.The Russians swam, flipped and kicked their way through the songs War and Step by Denis Garnizov. Their height, speed and synchronization were far superior to the other teams.Davydova became the most successful swimmer in the sport with her fifth gold medal, including three in the team event. Her teammates Gromova and Khasyanova also earned their third gold medals in the team competition.Ishchenko and Romashina claimed their second gold medals of these games after winning the synchro duet event.China earned the silver at 194.010, edging Spain by 0.89 points. The Spanish settled for the bronze at 193.120 four years after winning silver in Beijing.