It creates a vacuum between their hands and head when they go in the water straight, means that splash happens deeper in the water so less above the surface.
Olympic Diving
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It creates a vacuum between their hands and head when they go in the water straight, means that splash happens deeper in the water so less above the surface.
If you did that you'd break all your fingers if you had a bad dive, they hit the water at speeds of up to 40mph.
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Cheers
Soldato
When does Daley dive again?
Soldato
10th of August. I just hope all the abuse he has taken and media the circus that followed hasn't messed up his head to much.
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7 events down, 6 golds for China.
Could've been fighting for a medal today if our best diver wasn't excluded
Daley and Waterfield have got their work cut out.
Could've been fighting for a medal today if our best diver wasn't excluded
Daley and Waterfield have got their work cut out.
Soldato
Daley is diving in about 20 minutes I think, with semi finals tomorrow.
Caporegime
Yea it's on at 7pm
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Don't know how they manage to avoid smashing their faces up every other week. They're so close to the board 
Edit: Holy ****. That was inches away from a face plant!
Edit: Holy ****. That was inches away from a face plant!
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Soldato
There won't be any gold medal for Daley, in fact, doubt there'll be any medal. He's only barely managing to get in the top 18 to qualify for tomorrow and there's simply too many other great divers doing perfect splashless entries. Feel sorry for him, but he's very over hyped by the british media as the poster boy for the olympics. And pete waterfield is doing terribly, second from last out of about 32 divers.
Caporegime
He won't beat Bo but I think he's in with a shot of a medal after the year he's had. Doesn't matter how he qualifies as long as he does.
He will probably be over hyped (isn't everyone British really?)
But as far as I know, he's done very well in previous events recently.
Said he will be much better by 2016 as well and had a tough year
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Pete's last dive was very bad though..
Would've been 14 in Beijing, wasn't expected to get a medal by any means; but he got some experience.
Only seems like in the last few months his name has really got around though, for those who don't follow diving/or him. Media would latch onto an 18 year old who looks like that though wouldn't they, especially with his dad dying etc.
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MUCH better from Pete.
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Love Leon Taylors commentary. He's obviously clued up being a former diver and Olympic medallist himself but his description of bad dives is hilarious and usually very descriptive of what went wrong 
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Commentators mentioned the water looks like glass when diving from that height so a little ripple basically gives them an idea of where the water is.