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Kassidy Cook dinner and Sarah Bacon embraced as quickly as they popped out of the pool after their fifth and remaining dive on Saturday morning.
They already knew that they had doubtless achieved sufficient to safe the U.S.’s first medal of the Paris Olympics.
Cook dinner and Bacon entered the ultimate spherical of the ladies’s synchronized diving springboard remaining in second place behind China’s juggernaut workforce of Yani Chang and Yiwen Chen. The American duo wanted a powerful rating to carry off groups from Australia and Nice Britain in a decent battle for silver and bronze.
Within the remaining spherical, Cook dinner and Bacon secured silver with a strong rating of 70.20 factors with their ahead 2 ½ somersaults, 1 twist dive. Nice Britain’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen settled for bronze, 12 factors behind the American duo. Australia’s Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith endured a disappointing remaining spherical and completed fifth.
“It means a lot to me,” Cook dinner mentioned. “I used to be at all times dreaming about changing into an Olympic medallist, whatever the colour. To complete up there so early with considered one of my greatest mates in diving, it’s so unreal. I’m type of misplaced for phrases.”
Staff Cook dinner’N Bacon, as Cook dinner and Bacon are identified, earned America’s first medal in ladies’s synchronized springboard diving since 2012. They have been on tempo to medal on the World Championships in Japan final yr earlier than a poor final-round efficiency brought about them to slide to fourth place, six-tenths of a degree out of a bronze medal.
This yr, on a much bigger stage, Cook dinner and Bacon had no such points. The one workforce to beat them have been Chang and Chen, who haven’t misplaced a world diving occasion since 2022 and are anticipated to complete 1-2 within the solo springboard diving competitors.
Bacon, 27, was competing in her first Olympics, whereas Cook dinner represented the U.S. in Rio 2016 and positioned thirteenth within the ladies’s springboard diving competitors.
Each Cook dinner and Bacon have been in tears at Olympic Trials after they certified for Paris. Now Staff Cook dinner’N Bacon has one thing extra to rejoice.
“For each of us, the strain on the Olympic trials to make it right here is definitely a much bigger deal than being on the Olympics itself,” Bacon mentioned. “Our trials set us up very nicely to carry out our greatest.”
