Divers Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith have been left heartbroken after falling in need of their Olympic dream.
The pair have been in place for a bronze medal on their last dive of the ladies’s synchronised 3m springboard last, and had an opportunity to seize silver, when Smith slipped as she launched and hit the facet of the board.
The Aussie duo positioned fifth, whereas Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen of China took residence the gold medal.
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The Australian pair completed in fourth. 9
Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Prepare dinner of the USA secured silver, whereas Nice Britain’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen claimed the bronze.
As a substitute of celebrating, the pair have been left feeling disheartened.
“We’re disillusioned, clearly. I made a fairly large mistake, after we have been in a superb place to medal, however that is diving,” Smith mentioned shortly after the dive.
“Typically you’ll be able to’t management that, it is simply unfortunate.”
Regardless of feeling uneasy, Smith mirrored on the superb partnership she has shared with Keeney over the previous decade.
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“We have been doing synchro collectively for 10 years now, and been by plenty of highs and plenty of lows collectively. But it surely’s simply sport and we’re right here for one another,” she mentioned.
“We’ll proceed to be. We’ll reset and go once more, we do not cease.”
Keeney mentioned “time heals all wounds” and is now waiting for her subsequent occasion, the ladies’s 3m particular person.
Broad World of Sports activities commentator Sam Fricker mentioned it was Smith’s mistake on the ultimate dive that noticed them slip out of the medal positions.
“We have seen a slight mistake from Anabelle coming off the board,” Fricker mentioned.
“I am not fully certain what occurred there. They’ve simply missed out on a medal.”
Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith hugging shortly after the dive. Â 9
There have been emotional scenes as Smith cried within the arms of her coach.
“It is the heartbreak, is not it, of the Olympic Video games,” mentioned Mark Taylor on 9’s protection.
“You’re feeling for Anabelle Smith. Matt Hill going over to console her, the coach. Ten factors off the bronze medal there.
“They constructed it up so properly. Simply that last dive. Heartbreak for Anabelle Smith.”
Chang and Chen gained gold with 337.68 factors forward of Bacon and Prepare dinner on 314.64 factors and Harper and Mew Jenson on 302.28 factors.
Keeney and Smith completed in fifth with 292.20 factors.
