First US medal of Paris 2024 Olympics comes in women’s synchronised diving

• Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon take silver
• Australia botch final dive to fall out of medal spots

Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook took home the first medal for the United States at the Paris Olympics on Saturday afternoon, winning diving silver in the women's 3m synchronised event.

Bacon and Cook finished with 314.64 points on five dives, leaving them 23.04 points adrift of China's Yani Chang and Yiwen Chang, the first-time Olympians who entered as prohibitive favorites after winning the event at the past three world championships. It marks the sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal for China in the event since the 2004 Athens Games.