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SAINT-DENIS, France — Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon won silver in the women’s 3-meter synchronized springboard event on Saturday, securing America’s first medal of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Their five-dive score of 314.64 put Americans on the podium in this event for the first time since 2012, as Bacon and Cook sandwiched between the gold medal-winning duo of Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen from China and bronze Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen of Great Britain.
'And then we found out after that we are the first metal for Team USA, which is an even more awesome feeling,' Cook said. This event has been held seven times in Olympics history and a duo from China has won six of those competitions, only failing to take the top podium spot in 2000. Bacon, who narrowly missed making the U.S. diving team for Tokyo, said that disappointment turned into a blessing.
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