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Rafa Maciel

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  1. Absolutely - the right teams won the quotas today. The lads can make it up by both securing individual quotas later in the week.
  2. I know there's no quotas on offer at this champs, but the acrobatic scores don't count for olympic qualification right - just technical and free?
  3. If only the platform lads had qualified in 3rd, they'd have taken silver Only solace is that of the 4 synchro quotas, this should be one of the easier ones for GB to secure at Doha next year (all things being equal and barring any injuries)
  4. These are only quotas for the synchro events and are separate from the individual events so this doesn't impact Italy's individual quota
  5. 3 from 3 for 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.
  6. The feeds seem to be a lot more stable today - managed to get through entire women's 3m synchro without breaking up once
  7. 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
  8. Only for countries with a wealth of options For it will be the same old names who'll line up.
  9. So not sure what this means, but possibly BBC will be covering some of the championships after all: "Key sessions from the World Aquatic Championships will be available either on 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website & App, and BBC Sounds"
  10. Squad for Glasgow World Champs Men Neilson Powless Matteo Jorgenson Lawson Craddock Quinn Simmons Magnus Sheffield (Road Race & Time Trial) Sean Quinn Brandon McNulty (Time Trial Only) Women Chloe Dygert (Road Race & Time Trial) Veronica Ewers Heidi Franz Megan Jastrab Coryn Labecki Skylar Schneider Lauren Stephens Kristen Faulkner (Time Trial Only) Amber Neben (Time Trial Only)
  11. Lonato World Cup Men's Trap Final Gold: Nathan Hales Silver: Qi Ying Bronze: Prithviraj Tondaiman
  12. From what the commentators have been saying, the actual changes make a lot of sense - routines made up of set number of elements, each element has a degree of difficulty score and if they fluff the element, they aren't awarded the degree of difficulty which results in reduced score. Teams that qualified for the finals in 10-12 will have had multiple base marks applied - the minimum score for an element - rather than the full degree of difficulty. This means that they can lose 7 or 8 points from their DD so whilst the difference may look dramatic, it may just represent a tidier routine. The problem at the moment is that there is no way for the spectators to make sense of what is going on as it is just presented as a score with no visibility of which elements have been penalised. I'd like to see on screen graphics which show which elements have been fully awarded, which are under investigation and which have been failed - similar to what they now show for figure skating.
  13. Coldwell only took part in the relay - she wasn't in the individual event as far as I am aware. But you are right in a way - the British women's team has far greater strength and depth than the men with 3 inside the top 10 and 4 inside the top 20 so we are virtually certain to have 3 quotas for Paris. The men on the other hand need to chase the points and realistically the only athletes that can hope to finish inside the top 30 are Izzard and Brownlee
  14. To be fair it has been the British B team all weekend. With the exception of Yee and Potter, none of our podium potential athletes have made the trip. Can't think of many other sports where so many of our top athletes would choose to sit out a world championship. Particularly disappointing on the men's side where they need to be chasing as many points as possible to ensure that we have 3 athletes inside the top 30 to secure 3 quota places at Paris.
  15. By finishing inside the top 20, Hector Pardoe (10th) and Amber Keegan (18th) have secured pre-selection for next year's world championships in Doha.
  16. Was beginning to think I was the only person here who didn't see Russia as some kind of diving powerhouse
  17. USA may have thrown away chance of quota in the women's 10m synchro after hitting the platform on their second dive.
  18. Not sure what is going on with the British Artistic Swimming Teams but that's pretty much every competition where their awarded degree of difficulty is about 40-50% less than the DD that they are submitting. In the team technical, the start list had a DD score of 30.6 but they were only awarded 17.05 and they are pretty much certain to miss out on the final - doesn't matter so much this year, but if they are looking to sneak into the team event for the Olympics, they need to be more secure in the DD scores when it comes to Doha.
  19. So no real surprises in the prelims of the women's 10m synchro - other than the absences noted above. China are a country mile ahead of the field. Expecting tight fight between , and for the remaining 2 quotas with possibility that and may also challenge. At the other end of the field, I think the French girls took some heavy knocks going into the water. Fair play to the girls from Macau - it takes some guts to be competing on the 10m platform when you're just 13 and 14. They were never likely to be troubling the top of the leaderboard and if the competition was anywhere else in the world, the chances are these girls would not be competing, but they made it through all 5 dives without dropping a dive.
  20. No Italy, Australia or Malaysia in the women's 10m synchro. Only 12 teams taking part in preliminaries - assume that means all will make it through to final.
  21. British women have never been particularly strong in diving - certainly not to the point of challenging for medals. The strength has always been on the men's side - initially on the 10m platform with the likes of Pete Waterfield and Leon Taylor and Tom Daley. In 2012, we then started to see breakthrough on the men's 3m with Chris Mears, and Jack Laugher. The women's team are looking to Andrea Spendolini Sirieix as a big hope for the future
  22. Kate Shortman finishes 12th -and last - in the artistic swimming women's solo - technical final. Looks like she got a huge deduction on her degree of difficulty - in the prelims it was 28.2 but in the final only 15.2
  23. Bronze medal for having been 11th in qualifying. Italy ultimately lost their grip on a quota with their poor 5th round dive.
  24. Wrapping up the performances on day 1 - Jordan Houlden qualified for finals of 1m Springboard diving. His score of 374.9 was enough to finish in 3rd. That was about 30 points less than Peng Jianfeng. He'll have a chance of a medal but likely to be fighting it out with Shixin Li for bronze
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