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The judging of Olympic diving seems to be extremely perverse. The hardest dives are always down rated, while the easy ones are given the highest scores.
Specifically, diving backwards from a handstand and then performing corkscrew twists, immediately followed by twists in yet another spacial dimension, look like the hardest possible diving motions. Heck, just doing a handstand on the thin, precarious edge of a diving board should get a medal all by itself. Then, twisting in several planes seems unbeleivable, and unbeleivably difficult.
But, the divers [male and female] who perform those dives, never get any credit for them.
Instead, somersaults get the points. Somersaults! What the hell? I can do somersaults. Little kids do somersaults all the time. Fat guys execute them in community pools all over the world. But, the doofus judges seem mightily impressed with them.
And then, the biggest deal seem to be how much splash the diver generates. WHO CARES?!!!
Splash, no splash - big stinking deal.
he hardest parts are handstands and then what the diver does while flying through the air. Those are the hardest parts of a dive. Paying undue attention to something such as a splash is just the kind of trivial, sissy, twit stuff that alienates the average American from the Olympic games [in addition to absurd "sports" such as ping pong, soccer goal shooting {without the game of soccer}, synchronized swimming, etc. Hey - why not synced farting?].
Question: is there some Olympics or sports board on which I may post observations on the sport?
Severius! Supremus Invictus
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Topic - Olympic Diving - Newey 20:48:31 08/20/16 (9)
- The landing gets the points. Whatever the dive, landing perfectly IS the hardest thing. nt - Smelly_Socks 10:18:37 08/21/16 (3)
- and the commentators never let us forget! - Green Lantern 13:06:16 08/21/16 (2)
- And they have the Splash-o-meter at the side of the screen too! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 17:40:29 08/21/16 (1)
- Have to admit it IS pretty amazing to make almost no splash. - Smelly_Socks 22:25:47 08/21/16 (0)
- RE: Olympic Diving - Bill the K 06:39:38 08/21/16 (0)
- RE: Olympic Diving - b.l.zeebub 04:49:38 08/21/16 (1)
- Good explanation - srdavis2000 09:31:15 08/21/16 (0)
- RE: Olympic Diving - Green Lantern 21:00:50 08/20/16 (1)
- RE: Olympic Diving - Bill the K 06:31:41 08/21/16 (0)