OLYMPIC NEWS

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- Hello. I'm Eloise Amberger.
- I'm Sarah Bombell.

And we are best friends,
but we are also duet partners

in the sport
of synchronised swimming.

People don't really realise
how much we train.

We do up to nine hours a day
leading up to a competition.

Because we're
such a sport of perfection,

so there's so many little things
that we need to perfect

in order to go into
a competition,

so it's not just about being
the fastest or the highest or...

- The strongest.
- The strongest.

We've got to combine
all of those elements together

to make a perfect routine.

So something really challenging
that we have to do,

we salute -
"See you on the other side."

That's just a personal thing
we do together.

Because, I mean, once you
start a routine, obviously...

There's no stopping.

You're kind of
in your own little zone.

Even though you've got
these people around you,

you can't really communicate
with each other during the routine,

so it's like...once the music goes,
it's like, "I'll see you at the end,"

kind of thing
and just hope everything goes well.

- Yeah. Yeah.
- That was our little superstition.

At the moment, because there's always
people who are pushing the boundaries

and trying to make their performance
better and better,

at the moment, it's about
being the fastest, but the cleanest,

and you've got to have
a wow factor in there too,

so you're always
trying to do things

that no-one else
has done before, so...

As well as the general things
about, you know, getting high

and being really sharp
and being close together as a team,

there's always, you know,
that extra factor

that countries
are looking to achieve.

Russia, Spain, China, they're all sort
of the top of the world. Canada.

It has been swapping around
a little bit since the last Olympics.

So it's gonna be interesting
to see how...

It's not often that
that happens in our sport,

because it's a judged sport.

You do know each country
has their strengths

and what they can do
before they swim,

because these routines are carried on
over a 12-month period or more, so...

They're definitely going to be in
the top contentions at the Olympics,

and if we make a final and come...
seventh is what we came in Beijing.

And if we can better that,
that would be fantastic.