Olympic Diving

[Moothead2]

So close at the top, it's hard to watch!

 

[oli356]

Wow.. here we go...
Come on Tom!

 

[NZB]

So i take it he should get a medal unless he eff's up in the last dive now?

 

[Vonhelmet]

Could come down to the choice of dives left. It could be numerically impossible for some of these guys to win depending on the difficulty.

 

[Irish_Tom]

No pressure at all on Tom now.

 

[The_One]

penalty shootout now

 

[fozzybear]

Jesus, there's only .15 of a point between the top 3 divers. Bo Qiu still the odds on favourite though. Daley around 5-2.

 

[NZB]

eek

 

[mollymoo]

7 judges. Get rid of the top and bottom two to leave three scores. Add those three scores. Multiply that total by the difficulty.

So on a 3.6 dive, say you get 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 8.0, 8.0, 8.5, 8.5. The middle three are 7.5, 8.0, 8.0. Total of 23.5. Multiply by 3.6 to give a score of 84.6.

Do that six times and that's that.

Right, cheers, crazy scoring

 

[Spenty]

Bo Qiu will win Gold.

 

[The_One]

daly has advantage of putting down a marker for the other two to beat. if he does a stonking dive it ramps the pressure on the yank and chinese

 

[NZB]

I'm lost now, i thought daley was headed for a medal now i've no clue.

 

[The_One]

I'm lost now, i thought daley was headed for a medal now i've no clue.

hes in gold

 

[Irish_Tom]

Significantly, Tom Daley's final dive has a difficulty of 3.3 while Qiu Bo and David Boudia both have a 3.6 in the tank. If all three land their dives perfectly, then that will see Daley end up in bronze place. But anything could happen yet.

 

[Moothead2]

I'm lost now, i thought daley was headed for a medal now i've no clue.

Basically guaranteed a medal unless he cocks it up big time. Difference between gold and bronze though is minimal and could go either way.

 

[Vonhelmet]

He probably is, but if a couple of people pull out 4+ difficulty dives and he's stood there with a 3.3 then it could be impossible regardless of how good it is.

Edit: just heard it is 3.3!

 

[Merlin5]

This will now HAVE to be the best dive daley has ever done, even to just get silver.

 

[SDK^]

Finishing on a 3.3 - what was he thinking.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

This will now HAVE to be the best dive daley has ever done, even to just get silver.

Even if he only finishes with a Bronze he'll have only been beaten by the two divers ranked above him in the world. Not bad considering his age.

 

[oli356]

Finishing on a 3.3 - what was he thinking.

That he can do it comfortably under pressure.