{"id":1589,"date":"2024-08-08T08:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2024-08-08T08:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T08:16:48","slug":"china-wins-first-gold-medal-in-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"China wins first gold medal in Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese synchronized swimming team won its first Olympic gold medal in the team event at the Paris Olympics in the early hours of August 8, Beijing time. In addition, some media mentioned that China took the lead in the three games with a total score of 996.1389 points, 81.7968 points ahead of the second-place US team, and fault took the first Olympic gold medal in history!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1590 aligncenter\" title=\"16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314.png\" alt=\"16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314.png 800w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/16a5e7ad02291f2c9683359dbf0a0314-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nGold medallists China, Silver Medallists USA and bronze medallists Spain pose for a picture during the medal ceremony after the final of the synchronized swimming team event at the Paris Olympics on August 7,2010.<\/p>\n<p>Jacklyn Liu of the United States, who won a silver medal in the same event as the Chinese, quickly paid tribute to the Chinese, AP reported. \u201cIt&#8217;s amazing what they can do,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you watch them swim, they&#8217;re like machines. They&#8217;re so clean. We want to incorporate that into our swimming [ performance ] .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jayme Chakowski, another American, was also \u201cEndlessly\u201d about the performance of the Chinese, the Associated Press said. \u201cWe have a lot of respect for them,\u201d Chakowski said. \u201cYou can see how much effort they put in. There&#8217;s no doubt they deserve the gold medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Paris Olympics website also praised the Chinese team&#8217;s performance in a post-match press release, calling it an\u201cIncredible performance of art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a long-awaited gold medal,\u201d Xinhua said Monday, adding that it had won silver medals in three consecutive games, from the podium in Beijing to London, Rio and Tokyo, chinese flower girls finally bloom in the water sports center in Paris, creating history. \u201cThis gold medal not only belongs to our team, but also to generations of Chinese flower tourists. It carries more meaning,\u201d said Feng Yu, captain of the Chinese Flower Parade team, after the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese synchronized swimming team won its first Olympic gold medal in the team event at the Paris Olympics in the early hours of August 8, Beijing time. In addition,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,257],"tags":[173,388,269],"views":115,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}