(Tokyo Olympics) China's "Dream Team" lost in the men's double 10-meter stage

　　China News Service, Tokyo, July 26 (Reporter Zhang Su) The Tokyo Olympic diving event started on the 26th to compete for the second gold. In the fierce competition with the British duo Daly/Marty Lee, the Chinese diving team Cao Yuan/Chen Aisen Due to a mistake in the 4th round, the team finished second in the men's double 10-meter platform with a slight gap of 1.23 points, and the Daly combination won the gold for the first time.

　　Compared with the women’s double 3-meter springboard that easily won the championship on the first day, the men’s double 10-meter platform is not considered an advantage for the Chinese diving team, which is known as the "dream team", even though both Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen played this time. Holding the Olympic gold medal also possesses a very high level of competition, but from the perspective of competitors, the combination of the United Kingdom, Russia and other countries has been improving all the time, and has strong strength in the difficulty and quality of the movements.

　　In the previous two rounds of prescribed actions, the Chinese team took the top spot with 111.60 with a more uniform and high-quality action, ahead of the second-placed Daly combination by 4.20 points.

　　In the first round of optional action, the Chinese team further expanded its lead to 13.30.

The variables of the whole game appeared in the 4th round. The British team that took the lead in the game chose 3.6 difficult moves and finished with high quality to get 93.96 points. Cao Yuan/Chen Aisen who chose the same moves unexpectedly followed. There were more serious mistakes in synchronization and water pressure. In this jump, they only scored 73.44 points, and the ranking fell to second place, 5.18 points behind their opponents.

　　In the fifth jump, the British team successfully completed an action with a difficulty coefficient of 3.4 and scored 89.76 points. Cao Yuan/Chen Aisen who played again stabilized their position and scored 93.24 points on the action with a difficulty of 3.7, chasing the point difference to 1.74.

　　In the fierce final jump, Daly's combination took the highest difficulty of 3.7 moves. They played well and got a high score of 101.01.

The heavy-bearing Chinese team showed superb psychological quality in the last 3.6 moves. With extremely high-quality moves, they scored a game-high 101.52 points. However, they still failed to recover the point difference and ended up with a total of 1.23. The score gap missed the gold medal.

　　Bonda/Minibaev of the Russian Olympic Committee team ranked third with 439.92 points to win the bronze.

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