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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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some of these guys have the most incredible dives with twist, flips along with perfect form but if they don't hit the water stealth-like the commentators can be quite cruel "wow that might as well have been a belly-flop" or "that's so disappointing"...
To watch a diver hit the water and just disappear, and then kind of a roiling of the water, but no splashing water... is just amazing.
I felt the same way as you while watching the scores of the dives.
I consider Ping Pong as a great sport. If you watch carefully you will see the tremendous technique involved. Its not just the basement game but one that needs quick reflexes and timing and judgement. Try playing against your local champion.
Cheers
Bill
The dives have a multiplier attached graded by difficulty.
The diver has the choice between an easy dive which he/she is likely to perform perfectly with a low multiplier or a harder dive with a larger one. The more elements to a dive the higher it's multiplier.
Seven judges rate the jump by the quality it was performed at, the two highest and two lowest are disregarded and the remaining total is multiplied by the jump's score.
The easiest dive is 1.2 so if the diver gets all 10s he gets (10 + 10 +10) x 1.2 = 36 points.
A hard dive would probably be 4.8. Perfect execution would garner 144 points.
But if that same dive goes wrong and gets 5s from the judges it looks as if they prefer easy ones but that dive would still score a total of 15 x 4.8 = 72 points or double the easiest dive with perfect 10s.
That clears that up.
Great post lol...and I agree on all your points!Is it just me or does anyone else have flashbacks of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving platform everytime a guy does a backwards somersault?
Edits: 08/21/16
I have those flashbacks. Louganis' head hitting still remains as a nightmare with me.
Bill
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