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Kurtis no chance of a medal here IMO. Many of the others are just far too classy.
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Tell it to me straight Doc
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Might be a good opportunity to get some rest before a big night ahead, if you're staying up.
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The two Chinese divers and the Mexican diver look like the podium favourites, no real surprises there though.
Kurtis bombing his last dive won't help his chances, you need to be nailing every dive to be in the medals mix.
Kurtis bombing his last dive won't help his chances, you need to be nailing every dive to be in the medals mix.
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Even if we stay at 18 gold and 43 total, it's still a successful games.
You cannot have an Olympics with every individual and team performing to predictions, there is no such thing as a sure bet for gold or medals. So what if the Boomers and hockey teams missed out, there's always bound to be slight disappointment. We also benefit from unexpected golds and medals too.
The only real concern is rowing where I think there were 11 ranked in the top handful of their event but we emerged with nothing.
You cannot have an Olympics with every individual and team performing to predictions, there is no such thing as a sure bet for gold or medals. So what if the Boomers and hockey teams missed out, there's always bound to be slight disappointment. We also benefit from unexpected golds and medals too.
The only real concern is rowing where I think there were 11 ranked in the top handful of their event but we emerged with nothing.
Agreed. Can you imagine the stress and psychological pressure to perform at this level… I don’t care how amazing you may be technically, if you can’t conquer your emotional and mental state at this level, you won’t necessarily get the goodies.
Kurtis rocking the pool boy moustache.
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The Chinese divers are a work of art, whilst I have small issues in other sports you can only appreciate how good they are at diving
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They are like diving robots and they very rarely malfunction, they are both battling it out for gold and silver then daylight third.
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It’s a surprise when they don’t quinella it
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Matthew Mitcham winning gold in Beijing is Australia's finest moment ever in an Olympics pool.
Fight me.
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Very close to it shows how hard they are to beat lol took a perfect 10 dive for the Chinese to lose
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Thanks Tubby lol
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A big dive from the Mexican, that should book him in for the bronze.
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If I remember correctly, the Chinese had already won every gold up to that event in diving, and many of them as a 1-2.
Yeah yeah, Kieran Perkins winning from lane 8 in Atlanta is great and all but Mitcham doing that on hostile territory in a sport with subjective judges is remarkable.
LukeParkerno1
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Hard to compare sports, have some other ones in front of the Perkins one anyway.
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Almost a perfect dive jeez that was close
Those two panelled the field
Those two panelled the field
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After the yanks said we're going to smash you like guitar....is my number 1.
Did anyone see the women’s semi final diving? I can’t believe that woman got 0 but she did land on her back but that would have to go down as the worse dive in an Olympic Final ever she tried to get another dive but they rejected her request.
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She said she slipped on the board and it affected her preparation
She made a big splash
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Been a few of those in the past. Been a few where they hit their head on the board as they come down. Part of the risk-reward you have to go so close to get the twists and flips in
Yeah I know, it must of been minor though bc they showed replay in slow-mo and I couldn’t see it but doesn’t mean I don’t believe her…
Just means it wasn’t visible to my eyes…
Okay fair enough..all sports have a risk of injury or failure…sometimes it doesn’t always work out which is bad luck…though when it works out it’s great too. That’s what makes sport interesting at the end of the day I guess…
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There isn't any disappointment, didn't you hear?? They bombed out as expected because their programs have badly regressed per ongoing reports/results. Happy times!
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I know this is a joke but Australia has the strongest competitive LaserTag scene in the world.
We're missing out on golds here.
