China completes unprecedented diving sweep
Posted on AllSides August 10th, 2024
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SAINT-DENIS, France -- Cao Yuan defended his title in the men's 10-meter platform on Saturday and gave China an unprecedented sweep of the diving gold medals at the Paris Olympics. The Big Red Machine won all eight golds at the Olympic Aquatics Centre, most of them with dominating victories. That wasn't the case in the final diving event of the Games. With teammate Yang Hao having an uncharacteristically poor day and Rikuto Tamai of Japan keeping the pressure on until a botched dive in the next-to-last round, the burden of...