RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Chen Aisen and Lin Yue won the men's 10m synchronised Olympic diving competition Monday, keeping the powerful Chinese squad on course for a potential gold-medal sweep in Rio.

Chen and Lin led from the first round and finished a comfortable 39.87 points ahead of silver medallists David Boudia and Steele Johnson of the USA.

British pair Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow were third.