USA Artistic Swimming Team Perform Underwater Moonwalk At Olympics 2024, Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson. Watch

Artistic swimming – colloquially recognized as synchronized swimming – is one of the most aesthetic sports at the Olympic Games. It is a sport that allows athletes to perform choreographed routines, on which they are marked. In Paris Olympics 2024, the American artistic swimming team made a show, swimming at the height of the legendary American singer and dancer Michael Jackson, the song Smooth Criminal ‘. The video of the American team performing on the song of the largest scene in sport has become viral on social networks.

The United States team even carried out an underwater moonwalk when they paid tribute to Michael Jackson.

Watch: Team USA interprets a Moon-Owalk Submarine with Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” in artistic swimming

It was the highlight of the day for me.

USA #ArtisticsWinming Team with a submarine moonwalk in tribute to the smooth criminal of Michael Jackson …

Emblematic instant! #Olympic Games pic.twitter.com/vwq2mzbayd

– Kalyani MANGALE (@Mangalekalyani) August 6, 2024

The breathtaking performance of Team USA led them to fourth place in the technical event of the routine team in Paris 2024. The United States finished 282,7567 points, more than 30 points below the possible China first place. Spain and Japan finished second and third, respectively.

China is the dominant nation in the world aquatic ranking, occupying first place in many categories.

What is artistic swimming?

Sport obliges athletes to perform acrobatics in water, adjusting their movements to a song. According to Usatody.com, athletes are noted according to their execution, their synchronization, their degree of difficulty, their music and their choreography.

Traditionally, it was a sport for women. However, in 2015, World Aquatics introduced duet events, allowing a male swimmer to play by duet event.

Artistic swimming was an Olympic sport until 2017. Duo and team events are the most common, with the female duo and mixed team events that take place in Paris 2024. Russia was a dominant force in the history of recent Olympics in sport, winning the two medals in each of the last six Olympic Games.

The technical routine team event will be followed by the free routine event. The technical and free routine will be played in a team event and then in a female event.