Posts under ‘Diving’

Matthew Mitcham Wins Gold, IOC to Look Into Allegations That He is "Young"

Australia’s Matthew Mitcham just became China’s public enemy number one when he denied his hosts a clean sweep of the diving gold medals. If I am one of them Chinese authorities, I will start digging dirt on this guy to disqualify him so the gold medal will go to China.
In fact, I personally believe that [...]


More Olympic Medal Biting: China’s Qin Kai and Wang Feng

Hah. Didn’t I tell you earlier that the art of medal biting lives on in the Olympics? Here’s the China’s synchronized divers Kai Qin and Wang Feng. Kai is biting his gold to test if it is authentic.
Seems like the Chinese divers are really going to win all the golds in diving, no?
Photo source: Nick [...]


Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia Make it Four Golds for China

There’s really no stopping the Chinese in Olympic diving, no? As expected, the synchronized diving team of Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won China’s first Olympic medal for the sport. Expect Chinese divers to win more golds after this.
Our tally for the China vs. United States gold medal race so far: China = four vs. [...]


Olympic Diver Tom Daley

British diver Tom Daley just might become the breakout star in the Beijing Olympics so we might as well start blogging about him. [Are you listening, Mr. Google? Har har.]
Anyways, here’s a picture of Tom during the British Academy Television Awards last April 2008. What does this mean? Maybe it means that the kid has [...]


Olympian to Watch: Britain’s Tom Daley

Diver Tom Daley will be Great Britain’s second youngest male Olympian when he goes to Beijing this August. Tom is currently the British and European 10-meter platform champion.
How will he fare against the Chinese divers who’ve consistently come up on top in this event? Let’s wait and see what August will bring.


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