Olympics: Japan 5th, China beats U.S. for artistic swim team gold

Japan's medal quest in the artistic swimming team event came up short Wednesday for the second consecutive Olympics with a fifth-place finish at the Paris Games.Japan scored 252.7533 points in the day's acrobatic routine for a total of 880.6841 from three routines at the Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis, where China topped the United States 996.1389 to 914.3421 for its first-ever Olympic artistic swimming gold.Spain rounded out the podium with 900.7319 followed by host France on 886.6487 which moved past Japan by turning in the third-highest score in the acrobatic routine.Japan needed to move…READ FULL ARTICLE