USA's Artistic Swimming performance to Aretha Franklin's "Think" | Music Monday

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At the London Olympics 2012, Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva were the only American women to compete in Artistic Swimming. Enjoy their performance to Aretha Franklin's "Think".
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[@Olympics]

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[@caitlynb9979]

I do synchronised swimming My dream is to be at the Olympics standing on the first place stand with a gold medle 🤞🏻 I won 12 and unders in the north west champions for figures (england) ❤❤

[@vitoriathais409]

Evgenia Kanaeva ribbon 2012 at the Olympics 💗

[@dominicweber]

The speed, accuracy and especially artistry are ridiculous. Absolutely amazing!

[@francisnguyen6349]

Good luck to their Tokyo in Synchronized Swimming, team USA!

[@peppermint2111]

This is a new trend. I usually hear classical music to synchronize swimming. Great job😄

[@user-qy8rs4yg4c]

It means you didnt hear much about artistic swimming..\ /

[@rainsrapidly]

Yayyyy!!! They jamming to Aretha! Wonderful performance

[@francisnguyen6349]

You're just won the first time Olympic gold medal in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America in 1996 Summer Olympic Games Team Synchronized Swimming!

[@seanbernicek]

Fantastic vibe

[@LL-pt4sl]

Awesome job ladies!! 👏🏽👏🏽

[@br9760]

Aretha, the legend.

[@serenageiler5484]

I guess you can do this to every kind of song. Looks awesome.

[@patrickjohnson7401]

I love how they walk on theyre Tip Toes!

[@karlaauroraponce4822]

Que buena sincronización gran trabajo :)

[@joshferrer5891]

Good Performance for Mary Killman & Mariya Koroleva

[@ravikumar.haryana4288]

Lovely

[@davidsnow2581]

I'm imagining myself trying this... I also don't know how to swim. Should be interesting.

[@will_274]

Woohooii awesome 😎

[@phoebejns5542]

Hii, I've a question, I don't know at all artistic swimming I just love watching it and I question myself about how they do to be so synchronise with the music underwater, do they hear the music underwater too or that it's just hours of training ? It's maybe a stupid question haha, btw i'm from France my English isn't perfect Thanks:))

[@br9760]

Sound travels faster underwater than in the open air. Even then, they can probably go off the vibrations from the speakers.

[@oliviabiesinger6087]

We have special underwater speakers that play the music

[@hylianchriss]

@@br9760 with the classic responding without actually knowing anything. Golden. Thank you so much... Yikes

[@phoebejns5542]

@@oliviabiesinger6087 thank youuu so much for the answer ;) i've learn something today

[@br9760]

@@hylianchriss Well aren't you pretentious. That's just *precious.*

[@ultimanoticia123]

Very Good

[@fernanmagallanes6091]

Woooooooooooooowwwwwwww

[@smfl106]

How are they able to do that?

[@al2sater-295]

Hi

[@Eshraq_fjr]

الحمد لله على نعمة الاسلام الله يهديهم للحق والخير والجنه

[@jayant9578]

Wow and to think they were actually removing wrestling from Olympics...This thing should be on Britain's Got Talent not Olympics. But whichever "sport" serves the purpose of western countries is allowed into Olympics.

[@lucyreed4068]

Jayant I’ll have you know both of those sports are extremely difficult in there own way the reason synchro is in the olympics is because it is extremely hard as while you are holding your breath you are trying to complete movements that use every muscle in your body and have to repeat this for over 3 minutes you also have to be extremely flexible and train at least 8 hours a day to get every movement in time

[@normanchen6510]

I knew it. No American like this has won gold from the duets and the team event since 1984 and 1992 in Los Angeles, California and Barcelona, Spain including Atlanta, Georgia. Could this be impossible to beat the Russians since they won 10 times better than everyone else in this competition? The Russians in this event are always cheating for winning 10 gold medals and now they're going to win 2 more in Tokyo.

[@sean5137]

where's your evidence for the Russians cheating in this event? If they cheated, they wouldn't have competed lmao

[@normanchen6510]

@Sean They had good skills and better synchronizing swim since their first gold medal in Sydney, Australia over 19 years ago. Somehow it all happened back in Salt Lake City 17 years ago and this is what led up to this doping scandal since it happened back from the Soviet era until now before Tokyo 2020. On the other hand, that's when that caused some to lose their medals on what the other Russian teams in other Olympic events besides this event.

[@sean5137]

@@normanchen6510 of course they developed better skills! the Russians are known for their highly intensive training regimes, and they simply trained harder and smarter than the other nations to be on top. Artistic Swimming as a discipline is always evolving and one you can't really ever cheat into being better at, and it's not a fact of doping that keeps them ahead but just that every other nation is one step behind in technique, height and control. You can't attribute doping to their rapid evolution to stay at the top of the game. You also can't claim they have doped in the first place without having solid evidence - what you're saying is merely speculation.

[@user-jw8iy6wi1q]

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[@edoardovanerio2363]

first

[@miokuroki4097]

11th place, yeah, cool. What about some real performers.

[@mohamadamiri8798]

A medal devoted to such a crab sport.

[@SevenIGI]

But Russians are still the Best of the Best! ))

[@user-qy8rs4yg4c]

They are indeed. And they will be forever I hope.

[@slidetackle3]

Hi