{"id":21026,"date":"2024-08-12T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympic-artistic-swimming-kate-shortman-and-isabelle-thorpe-fourth-after-round-one-at-paris-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:28:29","slug":"olympic-artistic-swimming-kate-shortman-and-isabelle-thorpe-fourth-after-round-one-at-paris-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympic-artistic-swimming-kate-shortman-and-isabelle-thorpe-fourth-after-round-one-at-paris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic artistic swimming: Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe fourth after round one at Paris 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British duo Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are fourth in the artistic swimming competition following their opening technical routine on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second-last to perform, the Bristol-based pair scored 264.0282 and are half a point outside the medal positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortman told BBC Sport: &#8220;We are going to fight to the death. We really want a medal. We are going to put our heart into it and leave it all in the pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The swim felt good,&#8221; Thorpe added. &#8220;It was amazing having a crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All 18 duets will return on Saturday to perform a free routine, with medals to be decided by a collective score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GB\u2019s best finish at an Olympics in the sport was fourth, 40 years ago in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortman and Thorpe and Kate have high hopes they can find the routine needed to match their silver medal at the World Championships in Doha earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c07e9jx4vymo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British duo Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are fourth in the artistic swimming competition following their opening technical routine on Friday. Second-last to perform, the Bristol-based pair scored 264.0282 and are half a point outside the medal positions. Shortman told BBC Sport: &#8220;We are going to fight to the death. We really want a medal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21028,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions\/21028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}