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Diving at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023


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Wow judges really wanted the French pair to move into the final in women’s 3m synchro.

Their third dive saw one of them forming a perfect L-shape into the pool, still received a 6.0 note:”; not to mention that same round China was given 8.0 notes with an awful performance with no synchro at all and one of the divers overrotating.

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15 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

No. On the women's side they weren't a big factor at the last olympics, but on the men's side they definitely were. They won bronze in men's 10 m synchronized. In men's 10 m they finished 4th and 5th (behind Daley who has since retired) and in men's 3 m they finished 5th (behind Laugher who won't compete here). I think their athletes would have been clear medal contenders in at least 3 events. Also at the world championships before that they won 2 medals and finished 5th in men's 3 m synchronized, 5th in women's 10 m synchronized and 4th in women's 3 m sychronized. So overall they finished top 5 in 5 of the 8 events at the last world championships they were allowed to compete.

Not a compelling argument. Looking at the three athletes you refer to from the previous Games it is open to question how many of them are still competing.

 

The 3m springboard diver will be 34 by the time Paris comes around which is elderly for a diver and he's unlikely to be improving while others will be. The two 10m platform divers you refer to will be 33 and 31 respectively. The latter is also Ukrainian born and it must be open to question whether he will wish to compete for Russia in light of current circumstances.

 

You're largely pinning your argument on a group of aging divers whose future is questionable.

 

P.S . Daley hasn't officially retired 

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4 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Really solid performance by the :GBR pairing in the women's 3m synchro event to qualify for final in 3rd place in what is arguably our weakest synchro event. By coincidence, we also qualified in 3rd for men's 3m and women's 10m and went on to win silver in both - here's hoping we can make it 3 from 3 later today :d

You must be concerned by their performance in the men's 10m platform synchro then given that they qualfied second.

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3 from 3 for :GBR :clap:

 

All the more impressive that GB hadn't won a women's diving medal before yesterday and now we have 2 in 2 days.

 

Just hoping that the platform guys don't screw it up by failing to medal now. 

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