The calm one is the general commentator/ analyst. He is the one who knows all the rules and technicalities and has the job of explaining it all. The enthusiastic guy is the "color commentator". His job is to vary up the conversation and add some color to all the rules. This is how commentary is done on pretty much every other sport outside of the olympics. Wish there was more of this in olympic commentators

Amelia Dowling oh wow, that's awesome ;D

except for the fact that they are biased towards the British team

Laura Toro Well... they aren’t judging and giving marks to the divers so... Also they are probably from Great Britain so ya, it’s their home country so they might have a little biased OPINIONS

Amelia Dowling o OK kok

I think this is the loveliest thing I've read on KZfaq all month. Your daughter is partly right - a lot of divers do get scared of heights when they first learn, and years later they have overcome it to the point of becoming champions!

Oh. My. Goodness. That is adorable

Megan Smith omg we like have the same life, I watched this with my 7 year old and he loved it and wanted to try swimming and diving right away :)

Haha 😂. Haven’t you explained to her that they’ve trained literally all their lives, and that they’ve dived off of the 10 m platform for probably thousands of times?

Your daughter is very adorable. Give her a hug for me!

thank you

thank you

i never really watch olympics but i always watch the diving and gymnastics, i recently watched the figure skating to and it was mesmerising

Rebecca Lee yea because someone did that before

same

People do that frequently. Diving can be pretty dangerous but I don't think it is as dangerous and life altering as gymnastics. Gymnastics makes lots of quads.

Same

Yes a guy a long time ago never heard of a girl hitting her head?

Same

Yes

The 3 m ones we're. No others i have seen yet

Yeah darn Brazilians thinking an outdoor diving complex was a good idea for the Olympics. At least the Jacuzzi tubs didn’t have algae in them!

we weren’t in a pandemic yet

jessica d Don‘t know if you‘re still looking for the answer, but I‘m going to explain it anyway. As this is a synchro event, the scoring is slightly different than for the other diving events. The two highest and the two lowest execution scores are crossed out, as are the highest and the lowest for synchronization. The five remaining scores (2x execution, 3x synchro) are each multiplied by the difficulty score for the dive. This score is then multiplied by 0.6 which gives the final score for the dive.

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@@MysticSaphira Thank you! This was really helpful

@@MysticSaphira you forgot to mention how the judges score each dive. the easiest is he/she starts from 10 or 9.5 and deducts .5 for the flaw they saw and came up with the total.

With a lot of practice. Having said that, sometimes they do hit their heads - the lifesavers at the side of the pool are there for good reason. USA diver Greg Louganis famously hit his head at the 1988 Olympics, and British diver Monique Gladding also hit her head at the World Cup, knocking her unconscious. There are videos of both incidents here on KZfaq, if you type their names into the search box.

Judges can't see replays from all angles as we do Keep that in mind I think the final ranking was fare

when their favored team/s are behind ( as they don't expect coz they judged / scored also) animals feel bitterness also? just asking

Kim'Ann Raymond the little towel is dry them self off so don't slip before the dive and pool mainly to release the muscle strain after each round

Well they're not exactly well endowed are they?

Not really (being a women myself), especially considering how incredibly young most of them are.

Yeah it drove me nuts. Can’t imagine commentators referring to male athletes as boys the whole time instead of men.

@@Hatohime Yeah, I would, and many others too. If a male soccer team plays commentators would also call them boys, it's not ulikely. I prefer to focus on actual sexist problems, like women being denied human rights in certain countries or being expected to become a housewife - you don't need to tell me what to get offended over.

dogiit1 Well, yes. But they are all pretty lean anyways.

Well yes. All sports are biased towards body types. That's how it works.

Body shape will always dictate sports. If you look at shot putters, or other throwing events it always favors the bigger athletes. That being said greater height usually benefits the high jumpers. Marathon runners are usually incredibly thin and gymnasts are often pretty small. The thing is most sports require certain muscles to be developed and certain strengths for the various actions that need to be performed. It's more like a certain amount of natural talent is needed in addition to the incredible amount of hard work they need.

I'm love China 😊

thank you for saying this! i've noticed it in men's synchro diving too

well yes, shockingly british commentators, commentating on british athletes, for a british television company are supporting the brits. The commentators being biased doesn't matter in the slightest, the athletes can't hear it.

Yes I saw that too 😒

Go and watch your countries commentary on it then if you’re going to moan😂 what do you want the commentators to say to a BRITISH audience, “oh that was rubbish they’ve lost their medal” and just make people turn the tv over and watch something else. The only reason you lot are watching this is because there’s no commentary on it from your country so stop moaning jheez

There's our hero!!

Tom Daley and Matty Lee did

I notice that too. I am Ukrainian. But I know someone who judges perfectly his name is Jesus Christ and he is God. Find him😀

It's because the audience can see their highest and lowest scores. As you can see, their highest and lowest scores are not counted, so it allows the competition to be fair. The line through the number just means that score is not counted, to answer your question. :) Hope this helped!

it’s been a while since you commented, but i started diving at 13 after seeing the olympics and thinking it was cool, and many people in my club started young (elementary school) or they were gymnasts who decided to join their diving team in high school

Las super hermanas Yolo true

Ali osman yasin go Canada!

Drew please find Jesus Christ, he is God. His message is REPENT for the KINGDOM of God is near.

México it's América too, and it's a Silver medalist, Canadá it's América and it's bronce medal

I don’t think the USA has very good athletes at this sport, I’ve been watching a lot of diving recently an didn’t see anyone from the USA

manuel martin the divers in the ‘heavier’ category might find that quite demoralising though?

Your rite I didn't really think about it like that . I treat people the way if like to be treated .and I try hard to not judge people for things that can be hurtful .so my sorries to anyone I may have offended .

manuel martin it’s all good man