Evangelia Plataniotis and Sofia Malkogeorgou have the last chance to send the Greek duo from the world championships in Doha to the Olympic Games in Paris.
The two medals from Evangelia Plataniotis in the solo, are one side of the coin in the participation of the national artistic swimming team in world championship in Doha.
Now the Greek team and specifically thei Evangelia Plataniotis and Sofia Malkogeorgou they are called to finish the job in Qatar and the goal is representation, with the duetin Paris Olympics.
As the team has been put out of the qualification track, all the hopes of the Greek team are in the duo. Her noon Thursday (8/2, 13:00, ERT Sports 2) will become o final in the free program, which will complete the duet.
In the Olympic qualification system, the team competition also plays a role, which in turn is completed on Friday (9/2).
We remain in the duet and Plataniotis/Malkogeorgou to celebrate the qualification and not wait for the final result in the team, they will need to surpass in the overall score (technical and freestyle) one or even two of the three countries that have not qualified or cannot to qualify from the group, namely Great Britain, the Netherlands and Israel.
This is based on the fact that three tickets will be given to the duo in Doha, but they can be five.
How; If the USA and Japan, who have qualified for the Olympics in the duet through the continental events, qualify from Doha in the team. If this happens, two additional positions will essentially be opened, which will be filled(?) by the runners-up couples.
*Earlier on 8:30 the qualifier will be held at free group program, with the participation of 16 countries. The Greek team, having been left out of Olympic qualification, will seek to make a good appearance in order to entertain the impressions of its poor presence in acrobatic and technical, which deprived it of any possibility to claim qualification for the Olympic Games.