Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield come fourth at London 2012 Olympic Games
Plymouth's Tom Daley and partner Peter Waterfield have come fourth in the synchro dive at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Tom 18, and Pete, 31, faced tough opposition in the 10m platform synchro dive.
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There were eight teams in the event and China were always the ones to beat.
After the first of six dives Team GB were in joint first place.
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China then suffered a slight error on their second dive, while Tom and Pete dived perfectly to take them into the lead.
The Plymouth golden boy and his partner then selected a more difficult dive than China for their third dive and stretched their lead at the top of the board.
The judges scores are multiplied by the difficulty to give the overall score - a blend of synchronisation and execution.
Tom and Pete failed to create a perfect dive on their fourth trip to the board, with Tom ahead of the clock and Pete behind to create a difficult dive which was out of synchronisation and pulled in a score in the mid 70s - not the 90s they had been used to.
Their fifth dive, the most difficult in the set, was better but still failed to hit 90 and left in them fourth place - six points off a bronze.
Their last dive did nothing to improve the situation, and left them behind China, then Mexico then the USA.
Tom and Pete will bost dive solo at the end of the games.
Comments
by cooperman23
Wednesday, August 01 2012, 9:31AM
“tom is not a big head, he is a lovely lad both in looks and personality. is this why people are so jealous of him? all the very best for your individual dive next week tom. most of us love you mate!”
by Anotherbloke
Wednesday, August 01 2012, 1:54AM
“Small minds for a small City - You will always get it.
That 'kids' an Olympian - for life.”
by kersweaz
Wednesday, August 01 2012, 1:33AM
“moyra byrne
haven't a clue about what you are trying to say in your last two rants on this page clearly you dont have a clue who i am.
yet your rants have shown that you mix with the other low life's the rest of us have to put up with in our live's.
your paranoid and deluded thoughts can only come from the abuse of using so called none prescribed self medication. get help in a rehab centre”
by moyztedbear
Tuesday, July 31 2012, 3:40PM
“to kersweaz just one more thing is your sons loft space still quite green and dopey dont preach to others when you have done much worse anyway you would never have made the sweeney so good bye over and out”
by moyztedbear
Tuesday, July 31 2012, 2:29PM
“kersweaz the warne family from torpoint wondered how long it would take you to figure out my identidy well done barry and the rest of your family just testing your capability as an ex old bill are you still visiting union street are carpet layers still going to bristol to work so they cheat the system in plymouth and by the way my husband is alive and well thank you after this have changed my login name so goodbye just wanted to wind you up hope trevor got his pontoon back ha ha bye bye”
by fazer58
Tuesday, July 31 2012, 1:17AM
“Fourth in the World sounds pretty good to me.
Tom seems like a nice lad,what's people's problem with him?”
by GreenGOM
Monday, July 30 2012, 7:22PM
“The criticism of this young man's achievements are just sour grapes by people who probably haven't achieved anything in their lives.
Good luck with your remaining dives Tom.”
by moyztedbear
Monday, July 30 2012, 6:22PM
“golden boy not just one more little big head to big for his boots now thanks to the heralds coverage hes not the only swimmer in plymouth so he came fourth get over it”
by maxine711
Monday, July 30 2012, 6:13PM
“@ChezGuevara - how sad your comments are! they were doing brilliantly, and yes they messed up the fourth dive, they still came fourth, in the world, hardly something to be ashamed of, and i am still proud of them! Good luck boys in the singles event.”
by Boggy23
Monday, July 30 2012, 5:53PM
“Sorry to hear such negative comments from CezGuevara, did you actually wath the diving Chez! I did, the standard was very,very high and just one dive (4th) lost them a place in the medals (they were in pole position at dives 2 and 3 ahead of the Chinese) So if you are commenting on the event make sure you have your facts right..... They didn't LOSE they came 4th in a very competative event, so hold your heads high boys you did well... all to play for in the singles.
As for Chez Guevara.... back in your box boy!!!”