I have been enjoying sports in which minor nations have done well recently, especially the women's weight lifting where Chinese Taipei and other South East Asian countries seem to be strong.
However, today I did enjoy the 3m mens synchronised diving, partly because Great Britain won Gold.
When I first started watching all the dives just looked brilliant, but I soon learned what problems to look out for with the individual divers' execution and the synchronisation of the two.
There are three scores for the synchro and one each for the two individual divers' executions and 8 or 8.5 is a pretty good score for each of those five but then the difficulty is factored in and eighty-something ends up being a pretty good score for each dive.
Going in to the last round GB were in the lead with China just behind and the USA a little way behind them, The US did a brilliant dive next and got themselves back into it. Then GB did well enough to beat the Americans and the Chinese could only manage third.
The diving itself was exciting, waiting for the scores was tense and we won in the end so it had everything that good Olympic sport should have.
Next time I promise I'll write about something non-Olympic.
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