 Japan's Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda maintained a silver-medal streak in their second Olympics with 98.417, while U.S.A. duo Anna Kozlova and Alison Bartosik climbed out from behind to earn a bronze with 96.918.The preliminary phase consisted of a technical routine and a free routine.The scores from the two routines were added together and the top 12 duets qualified for the final.