Diving at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

[Nickyc707 382]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Maybe GB in m synchro 10m, but unlikely. They'll need a China mistake to have a chance. 

They rarely if ever achieve a clean sweep so the chances are that other countries will win 1-2 events.

[Josh 13,633]

5 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

GB's best bet would be a fit Laugher and Harding, but both are walking wounded at the minute, to the point Jack, who is basically the only realistic competition to Chinese in the 3m individual isn't even diving in that. Frankly their silver was miracle in such circumstances, and they'l feel pretty good about it. At the moment the world order, minus the Russians, seems to be China - huge gap - Great Britain - smaller but still notable gap - the rest of the major nations (CAN, USA, MEX, UKR, GER, ITA, AUS) - the third group will ridge bac up to GB a lot quicker than GB will bridge to CHN, and in Paris 24, I think the Chinese might finally do the clean sweep they've been denied the last three Olympiads, unless the Ukrainian boy wonder, or a fit Laugher stops it.

Ukraine boy wonder being Oleksii Sereda?

[Nickyc707 382]

21 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

France winning a medal out of nowhere shows how weak most events in diving are.

Men's 3 m: Two strong chinese + Laugher -> Difficult to win a medal

Men's 10 m: Two strong chinese + maybe Tamai/Sereda -> Difficult, but possible to win a medal

Men's 3 m synchronised: China and GB are strong, but all other teams are rather weak -> Not too difficult to win a medal

Men's 10 m synchronised: China is strong, but all other teams aren't very impressive -> Not too difficult to win a medal

Women's 3 m: Two strong chinese -> Bronze is pretty open

Women's 10 m: Two strong chinese -> Bronze is pretty open

Women's 3 m synchronised: China is strong, but all other teams are rather weak -> Not too difficult to win a medal

Women's 10 m synchronised: China is strong, but all other teams are rather weak -> Not too dificult to win a medal

 

The absence of Russia has opened up a lot of opportunities. Also i have the feeling that Mexico (overall), the US (mainly on the men's side) and GB (mainly on the women's side) used to be stronger. I think if one nation would really focus on it, they could win 5 or 6 "easy" medals in diving. Not sure how many sports there are were you can get 5 or 6 medals that "easily".

Don't you think you're exaggerating the impact of the absence of the Russians. At the last two OG their nineteen divers managed to win just one bronze medal between them.

[Rafa Maciel 1,737]

9 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

Don't you think you're exaggerating the impact of the absence of the Russians. At the last two OG their nineteen divers managed to win just one bronze medal between them.

Was beginning to think I was the only person here who didn't see Russia as some kind of diving powerhouse 

[mpjmcevoy 380]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Ukraine boy wonder being Oleksii Sereda?

Yes. sorry, in-joke, it's the similarity to the Tom Daley narrative that amuses me, Jason Todd taking over from Dick Grayson...

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Fun fact: We are on page 7 of comments in this thread and it's only been 3 days of competition.

 

During the 2022 world championships, there were literally only 7 COMMENTS in total

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 hours ago, Nickyc707 said:

Don't you think you're exaggerating the impact of the absence of the Russians. At the last two OG their nineteen divers managed to win just one bronze medal between them.

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.

Edited July 16, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[mrv86 3,269]

4 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

 really mugged  in that final round 

Not really, the US just pull themselves together after awful compulsory dives, while Orozco and Agundez throw their medal in the 4th round; if the Japanese and Canadian pairs hadn’t failed a five each, Mexico would have ended 6th.

[Rafa Maciel 1,737]

Really solid performance by the  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 

[Rafa Maciel 1,737]

19 hours ago, Lizzard said:

Does anyone else have problems with the aquatics.tv stream? It's terrible quality here, yesterday was the same...

The feeds seem to be a lot more stable today - managed to get through entire women's 3m synchro without breaking up once