Some news from Tom Trapp:
CANADIAN WOMEN SHINE AT CANADA CUP IN MONTREAL
The Canadian Women’s National Diving Team turned in a stellar performance at the 2011 Canada Cup held in Montreal at the 1976 Olympic pool. Leading the team was Roseline Filion with a gold medal in the women’s 10 meter event and a personal best score of 379 points outdistanced the Chinese divers by 9 and 20 points for the silver and bronze medals. The Chinese pair opened the door for Roseline by missing back to back dives in the 4th round ( both divers doing a back 3 & 1/2 tuck). …
While the men had a formidable team, they did not receive any medals this time but did have several finalists in the synchro events. Attending the meet but not competing was Canada’s best male diver, Olympian Alexander Despatie. It is unknown why he did not dive. Could it be he is saving himself for the World Championships? The redeeming result for the rest of the men was several of them making or surpassing the scoring standard to be placed on Canada’s World Championship team …
One of the highlights of the meet was Australian Matthew Mitcham’s gold medal performance on 10 meter. The 2008 Olympic Games gold medalist in this event scored 7 perfect 10’s on his back 3 & 1/2 tuck topping off a great execution with a flawless “rip” entry.He suffered an abdominal strain before the meet and opted to go with lower degree of difficulty dives. This decision was a major factor in his victory as the chinese went for super high D.D. dives but missed their usual splashless entries.
China was the high point team with a medal count of 10 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze, Canada second with 7 total and Australia third with 5 all together.The surprise of the meet was the Japanese men’s team who took the bronze in both the 3 meter and 3 meter synchro events. This is the sleeper group for the 2012 Games next year and should be a force to be reckoned with. …
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