It's business as usual for divers
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August 2, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA did it again.
The country swept the synchronized diving events at the London Olympics yesterday, winning the men's 3-meter springboard to put it halfway toward taking all the gold medals.
Qin Kai and Luo Yutong led all six rounds of the final, totaling 477.00 points. It was Qin's second straight Olympic title, having won the event four years ago in Beijing with a different partner.
Qin pumped his fist as he stepped on the top of the medals podium. Luo was competing in his first Olympics, although he won a world championship in synchro springboard last year.
The Chinese won the men's 10-meter platform and women's 3-meter and 10-meter synchro golds.
Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov of Russia took the silver at 459.63.
Kristian Ipsen and Troy Dumais of the US earned the bronze at 446.70. It was the first Olympic medal of Dumais' long career. He finished fourth in the event at the 2000 Sydney Games and sixth four years later at Athens.
After a 12-year medal drought, the Americans won a silver and two bronzes in three of the four synchro events. They didn't qualify in women's 10-meter platform.
Qin and Luo led the second-place Americans by just 7.02 points after four dives.
But the Chinese hit their toughest dive of the final in the fifth round. They scored 104.88 points for a forward 4 1/2 somersault tuck, with a 3.8 degree of difficulty. They barely made a splash entering the water and emerged from the pool to see the judges awarded them scores ranging from 8.5 to 9.5 for synchronization.
Ipsen and Dumais also went for their hardest dive, worth 3.5 DD, but managed just 84.00 points on mostly scores of 8.0. That allowed the Chinese to increase their lead to 27.90 points going into their final dive.
Qin and Luo got outscored by the Russians in the last round - 100.32 to 89.10 - but it proved no threat to China's superiority.
Zakharov and Kuznetsov, who were third behind China and the US after the next-to-last round, rallied for the silver on their forward 4 1/2 somersault tuck.
Four days into the competition, China has romped to four gold medals. And its divers will be huge favorites in the remaining four events.
On Tuesday, with stunning precision and dazzling athleticism, Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao led China to gold off the big tower in women's 10-meter synchronized. The 19-year-olds - they were born just two weeks apart - won with 368.40 points. China is now halfway to its goal of sweeping the eight diving events.
The country swept the synchronized diving events at the London Olympics yesterday, winning the men's 3-meter springboard to put it halfway toward taking all the gold medals.
Qin Kai and Luo Yutong led all six rounds of the final, totaling 477.00 points. It was Qin's second straight Olympic title, having won the event four years ago in Beijing with a different partner.
Qin pumped his fist as he stepped on the top of the medals podium. Luo was competing in his first Olympics, although he won a world championship in synchro springboard last year.
The Chinese won the men's 10-meter platform and women's 3-meter and 10-meter synchro golds.
Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov of Russia took the silver at 459.63.
Kristian Ipsen and Troy Dumais of the US earned the bronze at 446.70. It was the first Olympic medal of Dumais' long career. He finished fourth in the event at the 2000 Sydney Games and sixth four years later at Athens.
After a 12-year medal drought, the Americans won a silver and two bronzes in three of the four synchro events. They didn't qualify in women's 10-meter platform.
Qin and Luo led the second-place Americans by just 7.02 points after four dives.
But the Chinese hit their toughest dive of the final in the fifth round. They scored 104.88 points for a forward 4 1/2 somersault tuck, with a 3.8 degree of difficulty. They barely made a splash entering the water and emerged from the pool to see the judges awarded them scores ranging from 8.5 to 9.5 for synchronization.
Ipsen and Dumais also went for their hardest dive, worth 3.5 DD, but managed just 84.00 points on mostly scores of 8.0. That allowed the Chinese to increase their lead to 27.90 points going into their final dive.
Qin and Luo got outscored by the Russians in the last round - 100.32 to 89.10 - but it proved no threat to China's superiority.
Zakharov and Kuznetsov, who were third behind China and the US after the next-to-last round, rallied for the silver on their forward 4 1/2 somersault tuck.
Four days into the competition, China has romped to four gold medals. And its divers will be huge favorites in the remaining four events.
On Tuesday, with stunning precision and dazzling athleticism, Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao led China to gold off the big tower in women's 10-meter synchronized. The 19-year-olds - they were born just two weeks apart - won with 368.40 points. China is now halfway to its goal of sweeping the eight diving events.
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