Babyface David Boudia (right) and best friend Thomas Finchum of Team USA didn't get gold but someday they will. They are young, talented, and brave.
The Brits in action
And when I saw them on TV at the trials last month I knew something good was going to come out of it. When I saw them stretching before one of their dives, all that was running through my head was “Strike a pose, there’s nothing, to it, Vogue” . . . well, I had flashbacks to the last Winter Olympics, and I started wondering if we may have found this summer’s Johnny Weirs. The German babies, the British babies, Australian boys, and our very American babyfaces, David and Thomas -- so young, looking so gay and so cute.
In the end, and as naturally expected, China dived to an easy gold in the men's synchronized 10 meter platform on Monday, the host nation's second first-place finish in two days in a sport it hopes will help push it to the top of the medal chart. It was the Olympic debut for World Champions Lin Yue and Huo Liang, who shrugged off the pressure from a home crowd to take the lead from the first round with a dive that won them a clutch of almost-perfect 9.5s, and one perfect 10.
They never relinquished it, eventually winning with 468.18 points. A strong last dive for German duo Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein -- the highest scoring of the whole final -- propelled them to a silver medal winning 450.42 points.
Russian duo Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok had held second place until the last round of the final but were undermined by a weak fifth dive and finished with bronze, narrowly ahead of Australian contenders Mathew Helm and Robert Newberry who had come out of retirement to compete.
The Brits in actionAnd when I saw them on TV at the trials last month I knew something good was going to come out of it. When I saw them stretching before one of their dives, all that was running through my head was “Strike a pose, there’s nothing, to it, Vogue” . . . well, I had flashbacks to the last Winter Olympics, and I started wondering if we may have found this summer’s Johnny Weirs. The German babies, the British babies, Australian boys, and our very American babyfaces, David and Thomas -- so young, looking so gay and so cute.
In the end, and as naturally expected, China dived to an easy gold in the men's synchronized 10 meter platform on Monday, the host nation's second first-place finish in two days in a sport it hopes will help push it to the top of the medal chart. It was the Olympic debut for World Champions Lin Yue and Huo Liang, who shrugged off the pressure from a home crowd to take the lead from the first round with a dive that won them a clutch of almost-perfect 9.5s, and one perfect 10.
They never relinquished it, eventually winning with 468.18 points. A strong last dive for German duo Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein -- the highest scoring of the whole final -- propelled them to a silver medal winning 450.42 points.
Russian duo Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok had held second place until the last round of the final but were undermined by a weak fifth dive and finished with bronze, narrowly ahead of Australian contenders Mathew Helm and Robert Newberry who had come out of retirement to compete.
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