But with five golds here we are on top again. We made some mistakes, and other competitiors were very good. We learned from that. We got really excited after Xiong Ni got out first gold. We took the rest of competition one event at at time.
Diving is a very hard sport to get a medal in.
You have to go through so many rounds and the Olympics are the hardest. On his third dive he was near perfect with six of the seven judges giving him 10s. He was in the lead at the end of the third round, until a disastrous fourth dive which he missed and got very low marks from 4 to 6s. That dive was the ranked 12th among the finalists. That cost him a shot at the gold.