Absolutely destroyed the competition with two perfect dives (.5 point away with one judge from three perfect dives) and destroyed the Olympic record for most points scored.
It's one of the most impressive/dominating performances I've ever seen and the fact she's 14 is insane. She literally beat out the Chinese defending gold medal champ from 5 years ago. They didn't even send the champ to the Olympics and finished 1/2 in the standings.
24 out of 35 perfect dives
RE: RE: Anyone see the 14 year old Chinese diver dominate?
Absolutely destroyed the competition with two perfect dives (.5 point away with one judge from three perfect dives) and destroyed the Olympic record for most points scored.
It's one of the most impressive/dominating performances I've ever seen and the fact she's 14 is insane. She literally beat out the Chinese defending gold medal champ from 5 years ago. They didn't even send the champ to the Olympics and finished 1/2 in the standings.
That was dramatic from the first hole to the last. Nelly lost a 4 shot lead and then a 3 shot lead, but somehow hung on to win by a shot after her opponents, Mone Inami and Lydia Ko, missed birdie putts on 18 to tie
going into the last day. However, China has 38 gold medals to the USA's 36. So who wins the most gold medals will come down to the final day.
Not that I care about it all that much, but the way I look at "scoring" the Olympics is a 3-2-1 system, i.e. 3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for bronze. Golds are worth more but silver and bronze are worth something too.
On that basis, without doing the exact math, it's not even close (in the USA's favor).
It's one of the most impressive/dominating performances I've ever seen and the fact she's 14 is insane. She literally beat out the Chinese defending gold medal champ from 5 years ago. They didn't even send the champ to the Olympics and finished 1/2 in the standings.
24 out of 35 perfect dives
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Absolutely destroyed the competition with two perfect dives (.5 point away with one judge from three perfect dives) and destroyed the Olympic record for most points scored.
It's one of the most impressive/dominating performances I've ever seen and the fact she's 14 is insane. She literally beat out the Chinese defending gold medal champ from 5 years ago. They didn't even send the champ to the Olympics and finished 1/2 in the standings.
24 out of 35 perfect dives
perfect scorez
That was dramatic from the first hole to the last. Nelly lost a 4 shot lead and then a 3 shot lead, but somehow hung on to win by a shot after her opponents, Mone Inami and Lydia Ko, missed birdie putts on 18 to tie
Not that I care about it all that much, but the way I look at "scoring" the Olympics is a 3-2-1 system, i.e. 3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for bronze. Golds are worth more but silver and bronze are worth something too.
On that basis, without doing the exact math, it's not even close (in the USA's favor).