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2016 Rio: Olympic Diving

alebi

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I want to watch the men's 10m platform RIGHT NOW!!!!

Qiu Bo + Daley + Minibaev + Sascha Klein ( :love: ) + Boudia + Mexican guys.......... OMG!!! :eeking:

And I already keep my fingers crossed for Tania... she deserves an Olympic medal SO MUCH and it's her last chance before retirement :points:
 

Crossover

All Hail the Queen
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I don't ever and probably won't remember names of diving athletes at all, but LOVE watching every diving events in summer Olympics because they take away hot weather!
 
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alebi

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My personal technical opinion: "Divers are ones of the hottest guys out there"

And you know how many time, during a diving competition, I call them skaters instead of divers? AHAHAHAH :laugh:
 

cathlen

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I don't ever and probably won't remember names of diving athletics at all, but LOVE watching every diving events in summer Olympics because they take away hot weather!

I can't remember names too. From 2 weeks ago EAC I only manged to remember Julia Prokopchuk & Illya Kvasha. I remember being impressed by Mexico synchronized Ladies and Men last Olympics, so I will probably cheer for them this year :) I watched lat year WC too, and I was really impressed by North Korean lady, who broke the domination of Chinese. I hope she will be at her best in Olympics too!
 
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Crossover

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I can't remember names too. From last week EAC I only manged to remember Julia Prokopchuk & Illya Kvasha. I remember being impressed by Mexico synchronized Ladies and Men last Olympics, so I will probably cheer for them this year :) I watched lat year WC too, and I was really impressed by North Korean lady, who broke the domination of Chinese. I hope she will be at her best in Olympics too!

Thanks, I'll look into some of the competitions where the divers participated. This must be exciting!
 

alebi

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I would like to see Yulia Prokopchuk on the 10m podium. Her lines are so clean :love:

I agree! She's really refined :)

Apart from the Chinese girls, I remember Pandelela Rinong and the super young Korean girl who won last year champs. It'll be really hard for the Ukrainian
 

naz

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Ah, I absolutely love diving! It's so entertaining to watch, and not just because of the hot athletes (though I do have to agree with alebi :biggrin:)
I remember laughing about one picture from the London Olympics, where the British celebrated their bronze and the Chinese were crying over their silver in the men's 10m.
I also love diving because it's so cool to watch people land beautifully in the water after having done multiple figures in the air. Impressive!
 

Layback11

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No idea what anything they're doing is, but I love to watch diving. I also respect the divers a lot because I took a diving class as a kid and I was petrified the whole time! :laugh2:
 

rosacotton

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I want to watch the men's 10m platform RIGHT NOW!!!!

Qiu Bo + Daley + Minibaev + Sascha Klein ( :love: ) + Boudia + Mexican guys.......... OMG!!! :eeking:

Right there with you! Should be a battle royale.

Big shout out to Cynthia Potter. She's my favorite NBC commentator during the Olympics.
 

solar

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I love to watch diving! Although I'm very uninformed on scoring, or even who the top athletes in the sports are. I'll do some digging around to see who to watch for :)
 

4everchan

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Canadian girls go go go ;) will be tough.. China is so strong... and I will miss my fave He Chong:love:
 

alebi

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Canadian girls go go go ;) will be tough.. China is so strong... and I will miss my fave He Chong:love:

He Chong won't participate? I missed this news :eek:hwell:

Today first medals in women's 3m sincro!!

Amazing duo Shi Tingmao - Wu Minxia for gold. Then CAN, AUS, ITA for silver and bronze. I think Canada is a bit favourite but... GO TANIA!! GO FRANCY!! End your careers with no regrets!! :points:
 

cathlen

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And we have finished first event! Gold for Chinese, silver for Italians and bronze for Australians :cheer: Congrats to all ladies, it was a pleasure to watch :)
 

sunnystars

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And we have finished first event! Gold for Chinese, silver for Italians and bronze for Australians :cheer: Congrats to all ladies, it was a pleasure to watch :)

Canada missed the bronze by less than a point! :sad21:

Congrats to the medalists though. The Chinese were machines! The synchronization is amazing :bow:
 

alebi

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after two 4th places (one for only two tenths), finally Tania Cagnotto got this deserved Olympic medal!!!!!!!! :hap93:

Was it the last competition for Wu Minxia? After this Olympic I'm worried many divers I loved will retire... :(
 
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