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Ona Carbonell

jumped into the pool at the Tokyo Aquatic Center a year after her motherhood on Saturday. He did it to lead the Spanish synchronized swimming team in an exercise to the rhythm of the guitar of the composer

Juan Manuel Cañizares

. Flamenco arrived in Japan in the technical routine test. But he did not convince the judges, who gave a score of 90.3780, far from the 97.2979 that pushed the Russian Olympic Committee to first place.

Four days ago, in the debut of the synchronized, the Spanish duo formed by

Iris Tió and Alisa Ozhogina

failed to overcome the ninth place in free routine.

On Tuesday, Tió and Ozhogina, characterized as baseball players, with the great voice of Tina Turner accompanying them, did not go beyond the eleventh position in the round of technical routines.

Some time ago, in Beijing 2008,

Gemma Mengual and Andrea Fuentes

achieved silver in the same year.

The level of Spanish artistic swimming is not even the shadow of that of past glories.

A young generation, with the exception of Ona Carbonell, has taken over.

But they don't have the same shine in the pool.

Far is that first Olympic metal of 2008, in which Carbonell was, then designated as Mengual's successor.

Four years later, in London 2012, already without its star, the Spanish team won the bronze medal in the free routine final.

In the duos mode, Carbonell and

Ana Fuentes

managed to win the silver medal, beating the Chinese by just three hundredths.

They were different times.

"Get out of the water, fat woman, go to the psychologist!"

The two Olympic Games in which Spain won three medals had something in common: the coach was the Catalan

Anna Tarrés

.

In September 2012, the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation fired the coach, who later fell into disgrace when 15 swimmers signed the letter denouncing humiliating treatment.

"Get out of the fat water, go to the psychologist!" Was one of Tarrés' phrases set out in the letter.

Since the departure of Tarrés from the team, which now coaches the Greece national team, the synchronized girls have not competed at the same level in the Olympic Games.

There is the mirror of Rio 2016, when Gemma Mengual, who returned to competition after almost four years in retirement, joined forces with Ona Carbonell to fight for a medal that never came.

The team was left out in the team event after finishing fifth in the Pre-Olympic.

In Tokyo, Spanish women have never been favorites.

They have in their favor that they are a young group.

But the future expectations for Paris 2024 are not the best.

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