皇冠体育app

The International Swimming Federation (ISF) announced 皇冠体育app will grade the synchronized swimming events in next year's Olympic Games.

皇冠体育app's application was approved after the Melbourne Championships in March, said Yu Li,director of the national synchronized swimming administration. Previously, 皇冠体育app was a technical judge, but next year representatives will debut as an artistic judge.

The artistic judge in synchronized swimming normally play an important part who may determine an athlete's final grades.The criteria an artist judge looks for include: creativity, pool coverage, interpretation of the music, and presentation.

The announcement came after 皇冠体育app's head coach, Masayo Imura, previous Japanese synchronized swimming coach,complained there was not Chinese artistic judge.

Yu explained 皇冠体育app doesn't have any synchronized swimming officials who have international A-level qualifications to judge such events and the new artistic judge will need more practice adjudicating before the Summer Games in 2008.

Currently Yu is the only Chinese A-level referee who oversees the technical aspects of the event.

She added more foreign officials should come to 皇冠体育app to judge more events here so that they can understand how the Chinese train in synchronized swimming, their music selection and technical and artistic arrangement of their routines.