介绍:
Heading over to the Asian Games, a recap from yesterday,
China is leading the swim tally after bagging six out of seven gold medals.
Chinese star Sun Yang won the mens 400 meter with a time of 3 minutes 43.23 seconds.
(today/sound 0924 Sun Yang)
Japanese swimmer Kosuke Hagino, who upset Sun Yang in the 200 metres, won the silver medal, while Park Tae-hwan from South Korea reaped the bronze medal.
Chinese Olympic champion Ye Shiwen won the women's 400m individual medley and set a new Games record.
Also in the pool, China aced the race in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay, beating Japan and Hong Kong.
The Chinese women were also successful in the synchronized swimming events. Here's our correspondent XuFei with more from Incheon.
(today/sound 0924 XuFei)
Chinese women provided a spectacular finale to the synchronized swimming events at the Incheon Asian Games, topping the scoreboard in the free combination event, taking the third synchronized swimming gold for China.
Japan took the silver while Kazakhstan took the bronze.
China's Chen Xiaojun says they had some advantages coming into the event.
(音响1, 陈晓君 female in Mandarin Chinese 14")
"Our dance composition is what we've been working on for our international events, so I think this was to our advantage. On the other hand, our team is relatively new, which has made for some problems with our collaboration."
China also took gold in the team event.
Japan, once again, took silver, while North Korea finished third for the bronze in the team event.
China's first gold from synchronized swimming came from the Chinese pair of Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan.
(音响2, music, The Butterfly Lovers)
Huang and Sun performed to the Chinese melody "The Butterfly Lovers."
Huang says the melody was interesting to work with.
(音响3,黄雪辰 female in Mandarin Chinese 15")
"We need to collaborate a lot in our show. Accompanied by slow music, we, however, had to create a swift and powerful program. We are good at exhibiting beauty in slow motion, which is a good elememnt to our combination."
Huang's partner, Sun Wenyan, says she feels they can improve their performance.
(音响4,孙文雁female in Mandarin Chinese 29")
"We are shooting for a Swimming World Cup. As such, we want to put together a stronger performance on the international stage. Our program is a Chinese love story that almost everyone is familiar with. We will read a lot to develop our understanding of the background of this ancient story and probably make some changes accordingly."
Synchronized swimming has been a competition at the Asian Games since the 1994 Games, with China and Japan dominating the sport since its inception.
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