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Diving at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019


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Awesome choke by Laugher! With a good last jump he could've set a new world record and even with an average jump he could've easily won the gold medal. Still i think he shouldn't be completely sad about this competition. Looking at the advantage he had over the chinese guys before the last jump i would say that it will be very hard for the chinese guys to catch up to him until Tokyo.

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17 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Did China drop out in the mixed 3m springboard?

 

yeah, they did it at the last minute...

and I don't know what, but something must have happened*, because they were supposed to take part also into this competition (with their individual world champions, not with a B-pair)...

*probably a slight injury to one of the two during the warm-up...:mumble:

 

or maybe FINA paid them to leave at least 1 gold medal to the rest of the world...:yikes::rofl::facepalm:

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6 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, they did it at the last minute...

and I don't know what, but something must have happened*, because they were supposed to take part also into this competition (with their individual world champions, not with a B-pair)...

*probably a slight injury to one of the two during the warm-up...:mumble:

 

or maybe FINA paid them to leave at least 1 gold medal to the rest of the world...:yikes::rofl::facepalm:

 

Just like to Russia in artistic swimming? ;)

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FINA probably did something indeed. It's a very bad image for the sport if someone wins all dozen events.

 

Interestingly, artistic swimming and diving are probably the only Olympic sports with 10+ medal events where a gold medal sweep is possible. Makes you wonder. :p

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