Meet the pair who ‘live like a married couple’ and are in awe of China!

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“If you want to learn how to dive, watch the Chinese team.”  Spanish diving duo Nico Garcia and Adrian Abadia, who are huge fans of China’s divers, caught up with CGTN’s Ken Browne before the Paris 2024 Olympics got underway.  READ MORE: https://bit.ly/46DaGM4  #olympics #paris2024 #france #swimming #diving #pool

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00:00Nicolas Garcia has been diving since he was six.

00:07Twenty-three years later, he and dive partner Adrián Abadía have had their best ever year

00:12in the three-metre synchro, winning silver at the European Championships and a historic

00:17bronze at the Doha Worlds.

00:20It was Spain's first ever diving World Championship medal.

00:24Now a first Olympic podium in diving beckons.

00:45Adrián is a rising star at 22.

00:48When he and Nico started diving together, there was an instant calm chemistry.

00:54We're basically like a couple because we live together too, but it's very comfortable.

00:59We're water, the two of us.

01:01It's quite comfortable working with Nico.

01:04When the Spanish duo won bronze in Doha, the Chinese pair of Long Daoyi and Wang Zhongyuan

01:09topped the podium and are favourites to be champions in France too.

01:15China's diving dominance is almost complete.

01:18They won seven of eight available gold medals in Tokyo and are looking to repeat that performance

01:24in Paris.

01:25But look out for Spain's three-metre synchro pair of Nicolás García and Adrián Abadía,

01:31who have their sights set on a podium in Paris too.

01:37In fact, Team China aims to go one better diving for eight out of eight gold medal perfection

01:43in Paris.

01:44Eight being a hugely meaningful number in Chinese culture.

01:49The great eight was foiled in Tokyo only by a brilliant performance from Britain's Tom

01:53Daly and Maddy Lee in the ten-metre synchro.

01:56We admire what the Chinese are doing.

02:01They play in a different league.

02:03They're on a different level.

02:05We don't know how they do it, but they're years ahead of the jumps in Spain, for example.

02:14If you want to learn how to jump, watch videos of the Chinese.

02:19They do everything perfectly.

02:21Eight out of eight sounds almost impossible, but if anyone can, this Chinese diving team

02:27can.

02:28Ken Brown, CGTN, Madrid.

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