We followed the FINA Diving World Cup this weekend as we lead up to our Olympics coverage this summer. It was fantastic to see American David Boudia (right) finish strongly in fourth place, just off of the podium, for the Men’s 10m Platform. Qiu Bo took the 10m gold and is setting himself up nicely [...]
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Matthew Mitcham fails to make Diving World Cup Finals. David Boudia 5th into finals.
Defending Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham failed to make the 12-man final at the FINA Diving World Cup on Saturday, finishing 13th in the semifinals. He had finished fourth in the preliminary round the day before. Mitcham blamed his less-than-stellar performance on an abdominal injury he dealt with through much of 2011 (you can even [...]
Matthew Mitcham, David Boudia into FINA World Cup 10m platform semis
Chinese divers continue their dominance at the Diving World Cup in London. So far they are five-for-five, sweeping through all the finals on both the men’s and women’s sides so far. In the men’s 10m platform preliminaries, considered the “main event,” Lin Yue of China won the preliminary round, while defending Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham [...]
FINA fellates Phelps
Choke. Gag. Vomit. That’s about all I could do after reading a statement from FINA praising Michael Phelps’ “apology” for smoking pot. As a citizen, Michael Phelps displayed inappropriate behaviour. But his sincere regret and the promise that such a situation will not happen again are sufficient guarantees that this great star will continue generating [...]