Team GB pair Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow finish fifth in synchro final
Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow failed to end Great Britain’s half-century wait for a female Olympic diving medallist after a disappointing performance in the platform synchro this afternoon.
The Plymouth-born duo, who have known each other since childhood, had entered the competition with hopes of a medal after they were crowned European champions in May.
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Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow
They began strongly to be second after the opening two compulsory dives but then immediately missed their next inward three-and-a-half somersault to drop down to sixth.
It left them with too much ground to make up as they had to be content with fifth place – short of their realistic podium aim after they won bronze in the same company at the World Cup in this same pool in February.
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Comments
by tflower
Wednesday, August 15 2012, 10:27AM
“Why do the media feel the need to use terms such as 'disappointing performance', and 'failed' when athletes have come 4th or 5th against the best in the world? This makes out that they have not done well. In anything else, business, education, work, ect, to be 5th in the world would be fantastic and no one would ever use the words disappointing and fail.”
by marc1964
Wednesday, August 01 2012, 8:12AM
“She gave it a good shot but some of those other divers had the dive of there lives. But it did justify the commities descision not to pick her for the invidual eent after seeing the strength of the opposition.”
by renegade20122
Wednesday, August 01 2012, 7:08AM
“u did us proud tony ,,,,,,”