Worlds, Italtuffi from ten and praise
World Cup, results
In the queen competition of diving at the Olympics there will be two Italians. Andreas Sargent Larsen and Riccardo Giovannini in the most important moment of their respective careers, do not lose lucidity and concentration and finish 15th and 16th in the platform semifinals. The Azzurri miss out on access to the final but give Oscar Bertone’s national team two more Olympic cards, for a total of ten.
Concretely the test of the 25-year-old Italodanese – carded for Fiamme Oro and CC Aniene and coached by Benedetta Molaioli – who opens the dances with a superb double somersault and a half back with one and a half screwing (64.00), inserted in the routines instead of the double somersault and a half forward with 2 screwing in the pike, with the triple somersault and a half forward pike (43.50) controlled not to perfection in the air and therefore poor; he later reacts with a triple backflip and half back grouped somersault (70.95) powerful and held great and with a vertical with triple backflip grouped slightly fouled on entry (59.40); he finishes with a triple backflip and half returned grouped somersault that raises very few splashes (67.20) and with a triple backflip and half forward grouped somersault recovered very well after an indecision in the presalt (56.10). Larsen totals 361.15 and canò still smile.
The 21-year-old from Rome – a member of Fiamme Oro and coached by Francesco Dell'Uomo – was also very good, who, after an elegant double somersault and half back (67.20) in the screwing, placed a flawless double somersault and half backflip (73.50) and a triple somersault and a half forward pike (46.50) a bit abundant; he continues with a triple somersault and a half returned regrouped a bit slow (54.40) and with a handstand with a double back somersault with a screwing and a half (64.00) of excellent level. He concludes, without being influenced by "Olympic" emotions, with a solid and effective grouped triple somersault and half back flip (54.45), summing 360.05.
