OLYMPICS: China win 10m diving gold

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China's Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang on their way to gold in the 10m synchronized diving. Image Credit CNN

Chinese pair Yuan Gao and Yanquan Zhang claimed gold in Monday's men's synchronized 10m diving final. The reigning world champions scored 99.36 with a near faultless final dive to claim the Olympic title.




   The silver medal went to Mexican pair Ivan Garcia-Navarro and German Sanchez-Sanchez, who pushed the American team of David Boudia and Nicholas McCrory into the bronze medal position with a strong final set of dives.
Gao, 17, and Zhang, 18, had been favorites to take gold in London after a dominating display in February's world championships, also held at the Olympic aquatic center.
China now have two diving golds after Wu Minxia and He Zi won the women's three meter diving yesterday.
"We had the highest score we have ever got after the first three, but at this level of competition, you can't afford to miss a single dive," Daley said afterwards.
The young diver refused to blame a mistake from Waterfield in the fourth round for their failure to win a medal, declaring that "you win as a team and you lose as a team."