The Catalan Iris Tió touches the sky in Paris

The Catalan Iris Tió has broken the curse and has made the Spanish anthem sound for the first time at the Paris Europeans, after winning gold this Tuesday morning in the final of the synchronized swimming technical solo.

Tió, who achieved a score of 263.6250 units, narrowly beat the Belarusian Vasilina Khandoshka by just two tenths of a point, who was gold in the French capital in the free routine, and had to settle this time for the silver medal with a mark of 263.3817. The podium was completed by Germany's Klara Bleyer, who secured third place with a total of 258.0400 points. The song that the Barcelona native used to win in the Parisian pool was My Christ Weeps Diamonds, one of Lux's hits, Rosalía's latest album.

With this gold from Tió, who already had two silvers and a bronze in these championships, the Spanish artistic swimming team has six medals at the European Championships in Paris. In fact, the victory comes just after a stir, as this Monday the Spanish swimmer Alisa Ozhogina accused the Russian team, winner of the free routine final, of copying parts of the exercise of the Spanish team, which came in second place, in a social media message.

Accusations of plagiarism against the Russian team

"I don't usually get involved in these conflicts, but today I will get involved, and how I will get involved. As a half Russian-half Spanish person, I have always supported both countries. I was one of the few people who rejoiced at their return to competition, because these girls are not to blame for what is happening with their government," she said on her Instagram account.

However, facing what she claims was plagiarism, she explained: "I felt honor and pride in saying that a part of me is Russian. Today I have no words." "I would like to ask them what went through their minds when they made this decision. Is a gold medal really worth more to you than how you win it? By copying the country that is under you? Is this the way? Stealing an idea?" Ozhogina added.

On this occasion, Spanish artistic swimming had to settle for a silver medal, the third, at the European Championships in Paris. The Spanish team, made up of Cristina Arámbula, Txell Ferré, Marina García, Mireia Hernández, Aurora Lázaro, Lilou Lluis, Alisa Ozhogina, and Sara Saldaña, finished 2.6805 units behind Russia. Now, the curse has finally been broken and the team has won gold, but still with a bittersweet taste from the Russian victory in this category, which they consider unfair: "We hope they will reverse the situation and realize that what they have done is neither fair, nor ethical, nor worthy of celebration or achieving victory," requested Ozhogina.