This could possibly be the worst dive in Olympic history.
In the past 24 hours, we have championed the two track athletes that opted for a dive with the finishing line in sight and came out grazed but laughing.
Putting everything into it https://t.co/JKysSszr3D
— JOE (@JOE_co_uk) August 16, 2016
Today, in the pool, at Rio provided a dive that was wrong. All wrong.
Russia’s Ilya Zakharov won diving gold at London 2012 but he did his chances of repeating the dose absolutely no good with this effort.
Is this the worst dive you have ever seen? #rio2016 #diving https://t.co/jA1NZgJEDs
— Enda Conway (@EndaConway) August 16, 2016
The judges were none too impressed, themselves, as all seven scored Zakharov 0.0.
That’s what happens when you go for a 3.4 difficulty dive that includes a two-and-a-half somersault.
He’s not the only Russian athlete causing a splash (sorry) at the Rio Games for the wrong reasons.
His terrible 0.0 dive was matched by Nadezhda Bazhina, a 28-year-old with 14 European Championship medals to her name.
She had an Olympic Games to forget when she made an absolute balls-up of her dive in the 3m springboard.
Apparently, Bazhina’s foot slipped at the crucial time and then she ended up hitting the water flat on her back.
https://youtu.be/dJE6xNSAg58
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