Wow, Team GBs "entry" has been fantastic for this. Hardly any splash.
So close yet so far....
So close yet so far....
London 2012 - Aquatics Centre
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I can see that there is clearly a lot of skill & co-ordination involved in this, but at the end of the day is there any part of the scoring which isn't subjective?
Perhaps there is some sort of splashometer or perhaps a hawkeye type system which tells how close together they hit the water?
Perhaps there is some sort of splashometer or perhaps a hawkeye type system which tells how close together they hit the water?
Their heads are only inches away from the platformWhy are some of the scores slashed out?
Yes it is subjective but you can see perfectly clearly with your own eyes how far from the board they are and how closely they hit the water. The scoring system is designed to remove biased scores.
Solius - read the previous page.
Yeah they are soo damn close...
Yeah they are soo damn close...
There are seven judges, the highest and lowest scores are discarded and the middle five are summed, then ratioed by 3/5 (to bring the scores in line with competitions where there are only 5 judges), and multiplied by the difficulty rating.
Ah cool. Cheers.
Holy fck @ Mexicos attempt.
The skill here is brilliant.
The skill here is brilliant.
I'd like to see them manage this with an inflatable crocodile and a boat floating around the pool.
Oh dear
Was not a good dive at all. Relying on a China fcuk up and two super human efforts for team gb now.
I would never jump from the fecking high
Why are they all getting into that hot tub afterwards
Why are they all getting into that hot tub afterwards
I would never jump from the fecking high
Why are they all getting into that hot tub afterwards
It's not that high. I've jumped from that high before, I think.
Why are they all getting into that hot tub afterwards
To keep warm I guess.
It looks pretty high thought, I hate heights. Whats with the hot tub solius?
I hate heights too but if it's water below me I'm fine.
What if you smacked your head at the bottom of the pool? Out of interest how deep is that water down there? Anyone know?
Got to be gold for China
The british lads are pretty bobbins at this synchro diving lark. Why all the hype?
Blame the BBC
Is Daley in any other events? He's apparently won the world championships individually but always seems to be in the syncronised stuff which he's not very good at.
Team GB need to get the first 100+ to get a medal. Oh well, it was that fourth dive that let them down. Biggest mess of the day unfortunately.
The quality of the diving has been fantastic so far.
The quality of the diving has been fantastic so far.
Good dive , but not enough , finishing fourth.
4th
4th, thats like the worst place to finish.
Daley has individual at the weekend.
Daley has individual at the weekend.
Good to see Mexico get silver. They did the most exciting dives, even if they weren't perfectly executed.
Why don't more teams do that? The dives didn't look great but they got big scores anyway because of the difficulty.
Nick McCrory and David Boudia with the Bronze! That's two medals in two days in diving for the US and Duke.
America's last dive looked quite out of sync to me, so I'm assuming they must have had very little splash or it was a crazy difficulty rating?
Shame for our pair. Have Team GB underperformed so far? Or is it just that all our realistic medal shouts are yet to come and the ones so far were only hopefuls (e.g. Daley)?
Shame for our pair. Have Team GB underperformed so far? Or is it just that all our realistic medal shouts are yet to come and the ones so far were only hopefuls (e.g. Daley)?
I guess so to an extent. In Beijing they got two golds in the events they've medalled in so far in London, although the silver in the road race and Adlington's bronze were great efforts. The men's road race was disappointing in particular. Then again in the rowing for example it looks like the medals will be rolling in.
Yes, that's the event where we've been really commanding so far. I'm going on Wednesday and hoping to see us collect a few.
The men's road race was disappointing. I don't know much about cycling, but assume there might have been a bit of a hangover effect from the Herculian effort in the Tour de France?
Adlington had a great swim, really pleased for her as her chances were rated quite low going into the final it seemed, but she just kept going and it paid off. Interesting that she actually beat her Beijing gold medal time as well, and yet only collected bronze.
A stream for this would be good if its still on. couldn't find it myself.
Missed this, but it seems like everything we're expected to get a gold in (Men's road race, this) we have fecked up.
Stop fecking hyping up the competitors so much & let them get on with it ffs!
They're under enough pressure as it is without the media lumping it on double...
Stop fecking hyping up the competitors so much & let them get on with it ffs!
They're under enough pressure as it is without the media lumping it on double...
I think it was more that no one would race with Mark rather than him having a Tour De France hangover.
Seems to me we are more set up to do well in 2016 rather than this year.
Seems to me we are more set up to do well in 2016 rather than this year.
The fact one of her splits is faster than the male US swimmer does seem highly suspicious. Ah well, wait for the doping results I guess.
Yeah, the rest of her race was all right, but the free splits were insane.
Their gymnasts last Olympics were most likely underage also so it's not as though they don't have a history of it. Several of their jr swimmers were banned from competition for steroids, too.
Anyone who is not chinese, should not expect a gold medal in diving. They could have won silver or bronze and I believe Daley will do that in the individual. Not gold, though.
Why are the French so much better swimmers then us?