By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - Faced with a Chinese diving team who hardly seem to put a pointed toe wrong and who regard anything less than 100 percent gold as failure, rivals at the London Olympics responded by upping the difficulty of their dives.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - David Boudia of the United States won a surprise gold in diving's blue riband 10 metre platform event, handing China their second upset of the Games in the sport.
LONDON (Reuters) - David Boudia of the United States won gold in the men's Olympic individual 10 metre platform, diving's blue riband event, in a nailbiting final on Saturday that went down to the last dive.
The American's score of 568.65 was enough to beat China's Qiu Bo, 19, who looked distraught to get silver with 566.85, while British pin-up Tom Daley took bronze on 556.95.
LONDON (Reuters) - David Boudia of the United States won gold in the men's individual 10 metre platform, diving's blue riband event, in a nailbiting final that went down to the last dive.
The American's score of 568.65 was enough to beat China's Qiu Bo, who looked distraught to get silver with 566.85, while British pin-up Tom Daley took bronze on 556.95.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - Beijing Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham gave a thin smile of resignation as he realised he would not be in Saturday's final to defend his 10-metre platform diving title.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - The shine looked to be coming off British diving and Olympics poster boy Tom Daley on Friday, as he narrowly qualified for the men's 10-metre platform semi-finals, coming dangerously close to crashing ignominiously out in the heats.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - In the end, it all came down to confidence.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - China's Chen Ruolin set the bar sky high in the women's 10-metre platform final as she successfully defended her title and took the sixth diving gold for her country at the London Olympics on Thursday.
By Ian Ransom
LONDON (Reuters) - It was a case of who-dares-wins in the men's three-metre springboard diving on Tuesday, and a cautious Qin Kai was left thunder-struck after Russia's Ilya Zakharov rolled the dice to snatch gold from the Chinese favourite on his very last dive.
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's Ilya Zakharov took a surprise gold at the men's three-metre springboard diving final on Tuesday, ruining China's ambition of an eight-gold sweep in the sport at the London Olympics.
In the closest contest seen yet in the Aquatics Centre diving pool, Zakharov took gold with 555.90 points, beating China's Qin Kai into silver on 541.75.
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's Ilya Zakharov took a surprise gold at the men's 3 metre springboard diving final on Tuesday, ruining China's ambition of an eight-gold sweep in the sport in the London Olympics.
In the closest contest seen yet in the Aquatics Centre diving pool, Zakharov took gold with 555.90, beating world champion Qin Kai into silver on 541.75.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - The sound of thwacks resonated around the Olympic diving pool on Monday, with the powerful Chinese showing that even they are not infallible.
By Rosalba O'Brien
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese diver Wu Minxia sealed her legacy on Sunday with a gold medal, bringing her all-time Olympic medal tally to six and equalling the record held by her one-time partner Guo Jingjing.
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese diver Wu Minxia sealed her legacy on Sunday with a gold medal, bringing her all-time Olympic medal tally to six and equalling the record held by her one time partner Guo Jingjing.
Without missing a beat, Wu performed a polished series of dives, scoring 414 points and beating He Zi, with whom she won gold in the synchronised event last week, into silver on 379.2.
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - For four-times Olympic gold medallist Greg Louganis, diving is all about "keeping it together upstairs".
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