Sentence examples for poor dive from inspiring English sources

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DIVING Soldati, 30, Qualifies for Athens Kimiko Soldati bounced back from a poor dive to earn her first trip to the Olympics, winning the 3-meter springboard at the United States trials yesterday in St. Peters, Mo., with a stirring finish.

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While it's true that my poor diving skills meant I was not the most helpful scientific volunteer, this exciting trip taught me an incredible amount about the reef.

In the women's event, 14-year-old Lydia Rosenthall qualified fourth for the B final of the 3m springboard, but finished 11th of 12 in the final after three poor dives.

Upon their arrival in Saigon, U.S. Navy divers and salvage teams tried to pump water out from the Card's flooded compartments, but their initial attempts were hindered by a combination of malfunctions in the pumping equipment, and the poor diving conditions in the river.

However, a poor third dive (inward 3.5 somersault) saw him drop to fifth and, although the teenager briefly climbed back into the top three, Russia's Olympic medallists Ilya Zakharov (536.15) and Evgeny Kuznetsov (523.20) produced superb final routines to deny him.

Unfortunately for Clarke's team, Lukaku's spot-kick was poor, Michel Vorm diving easily to his right to make the save.

After the dive poor visibility, but we did spot an eagle ray — we took advantage of the moderate winds and sailed around to the open ocean side of Hook Island.

Rolle underestimated Wallace's quickness, however, taking a poor angle and diving just behind the speedster at the Giants' 46.

It was a poor excuse for a dive [laughs].

Yesterday there was an entirely different atmosphere as the two tried to share the blame for the poor synchronisation of a dive that, had it been performed even moderately well, would have kept them in a bronze medal position, ahead of the Americans.

Full story: Debenhams shares dive as poor Christmas prompts profit warning Updated at 11.47am GMT 11.18am GMT Welby's Wonga admission My colleague Angela Monaghan has been looking into this morning's update on the Church of England's stake in payday lender Wonga - an investment it has failed to sell off.

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