Diving at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019

[Gianlu33 4,555]

Awful, awful last five for Pellacani She destroy her race and put the final on the trash 

[heywoodu 15,135]

 

I found some footage..

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Gianlu33 4,555]

Laugher just destroy an amazing race 30.60 on the last dive and it's only bronze, what drama

[OlympicsFan 858]

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.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Funny thing is that Macau has a diving medal at the Asian Games, so in theory they are not exactly terrible when training divers. But this is... wow. Just wow.

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

Did China drop out in the mixed 3m springboard?

[phelps 7,674]

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...

 

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

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

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...

 

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

 

Just like to Russia in artistic swimming?

[phelps 7,674]

1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Just like to Russia in artistic swimming?

 

yeah, something like that...

[dcro 10,210]

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.