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‘Pioneering’ pair eye Team GB’s first Olympic artistic swimming medal in Paris

Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are well aware they could make history for Team GB this summer – and hope to smash some stereotypes about artistic swimming in the process. The Bristol-based duo have been selected for their second Olympics and have a shot at becoming the country’s first athletes to win a medal in the sport perhaps better recognised by its former name, synchro, if they can extend a string of recent successes to the pool in Paris this summer. Thorpe and Shortman’s potential is so potent they have even been tipped by Team GB chef de mission Mark England to do for their sport what Tom Daley did for diving in Great Britain. “We’re obviously going for the gold,” Thorpe told the PA news agency.
Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are well aware they could make history for Team GB this summer – and hope to smash some stereotypes about artistic swimming in the process. The Bristol-based duo have been selected for their second Olympics and have a shot at becoming the country’s first athletes to win a medal in the sport perhaps better recognised by its former name, synchro, if they can extend a string of recent successes to the pool in Paris this summer. Thorpe and Shortman’s potential is so potent they have even been tipped by Team GB chef de mission Mark England to do for their sport what Tom Daley did for diving in Great Britain. “We’re obviously going for the gold,” Thorpe told the PA news agency.
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