Synchronised swimming: Gold for Russia
Reigning Olympic synchronised swimming champions Russia held onto their title today, winning gold in the team event.
Reigning Olympic synchronised swimming champions Russia held onto their title today, winning gold in the team event.
World champions Russia lived up to predictions taht they would cement their dominance of synchronised swimming at the London Games, claiming the title for duets.
Russia's water queens are set to continue their domination of synchronised swimming again at the London Games having swept all the gold medals in the glamorous Olympic event over the last 12 years.
Canada's synchronised swimming team has announced its technical routine theme for the Olympics is soccer.
Russia sealed their third sweep of synchronised swimming medals on Saturday with a near flawless free routine.
Russia's reigning Olympic champions, the 'two Anastasias', defended their synchronised swimming duet gold medal on Wednesday with an almost perfect routine swum to the strains of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt suite.
Russian world champions Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova led the way through the technical routine in their Olympic synchronised swimming duet title defence on Monday.
The synchronised swimming takes place from 18-23 August in the Aquatic Centre or the Water Cube as it is better known.
Long ridiculed as a sport because of their hair gel, nose clips, fixed smiles and sequins, synchronised swimming has become one of the more colourful highlights of every Summer Olympics.
In a discipline characterised by smiles, nose clips and elaborate swimsuits, the Russians are chasing a clean sweep of the synchronised swimming golds for a third successive Games in Beijing.
World champions Russia successfully defended their Olympic synchronised swimming team title today.
Russia are poised to repeat their Olympic sweep in synchronised swimming from Sydney at the Athens Games after taking the lead ahead of Japan after claiming the duet gold.
Russian world champions Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Yermakova scored eight perfect 10s on their way to claiming the Olympic gold in the synchronised swimming duet.