Cracks show in Chinese diving machine
LONDON (Reuters) The sound nike air max of thwacks resonated around the coach diaper bag Olympic diving pool on Monday, with the powerful Chinese showing that even they are not infallible.
An evening of dramatic flops and mighty splashes during the men's threemetre springboard heats was capped by the unexpected sight of world oakley frogskins champion and runaway gold medal favourite Qin Kai stepping off the board wrong, over rotating and entering the water on the diagonal.
Qin, who won the synchro gold medal five days ago, scored just 39.90 for the dive, less than half he would normally expect, but did enough on his other dives to ensure he qualified in 11th position.
"At least I got into the semifinal," he said to reporters, seemingly unconcerned. "I will improve later."
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Russia's Evgeny Kuznetsov, silver lululemon medallist in the synchro, seemed to have sunk his hopes after he made a whalelike splash on his third dive, but also managed to just hermes bracelet get through in 16th place, with 18 of the 30 divers qualifying for the semifinals.
Venezuela's Edickson Contreras, however, did not have the same luck and he was left in tears after he took off wrong on the fourth dive and then made a mess of a nervy final dive, retaking the runup and flopping into the pool.
Germany's Stephan Feck also had bad mulberry bags luck and had to withdraw after he failed his second dive, appearing to hurt his leg and hit the water flat on his back.
Then, grape 5s to gasps from the home crowd, Britain's Jack Laugher had a 'knee buckle' on his final dive and his legs gave way, leaving him crashing to the pool with a puzzled look on his face.
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China are aiming to sweep all eight diving titles on offer in London, and have taken the first five with consummate ease, leaving the other nations to battle it out for silvers and bronzes.