Costly misapshow exits Wiens off the 10m podium – National

PARIS – A costly misapshow kept Rylan Wiens off the podium, as the Canadian diver finished seventh in the men’s 10-metre platcreate Saturday.

Wiens was in third place thraw three of six dives but scored fair 42.90 points on his fifth dive, a back 3 1/2 somersault, to descfinish out of medal satisfiedion.

Cao Yuan deffinished his Olympic title with a total score 547.50 points as China finishd the first-ever sweep of all the diving gageder medals at a individual Games.

Japan’s Rikuto Tamai took silver with 507.65 points, while Britain’s Noah Williams, with the highest-scoring dive of Round 5 and the second-highest of Round 6, sencouraged into bronze at 497.35.

Wiens, from Pike Lake, Sask., finished with a total score of 445.60 while Nathan Zsombor-Murray of Pointe-Claire, Que., was 10th at 404.90.

Wiens and Zsombor-Murray won’t exit Paris vacant-handed after prosperning bronze in the 10m coordinated event last week.

Amid the Chinese diving dominance, world champion Yang Hao posted a astonishingly disnominateing result, finishing last among the 13 divers at 390.20 points.

This alert by The Canadian Press was first begined Aug. 10, 2024.