Sarah Bacon, 27, and Kassidy Cook, 29, won silver in Saturday's 3-meter synchronized springboard competition at the Aquatics Centre.
The United States won its first medal at the Olympic Games in Paris.Sarah Bacon, 27, and Kassidy Cook, 29, won silver in Saturday's 3-meter synchronized springboard competition at the Aquatics Centre. The American duo scored 314.64 points, which put them firmly in second place behind Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen of China.Great Britain's Tasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen took bronze with 302.28 points.
Cook is from The Woodlands, Texas, and this is her second appearance at the Olympics.The duo missed out on a ticket to Tokyo after finishing second at the U.S. Olympic trials in 2021.Since the event was added in 2020, China has won gold six times in seven Games. The only loss was to Russia in 2000.China has ruled diving for decades, and three years ago in Tokyo, it won seven of eight gold medals. But it's never pulled off the elusive gold sweep.
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