Sentence examples for the final dive from inspiring English sources

Tom Daley, the local favorite who led going into the final dive, finished third with 556.95.

"I led from the beginning to the final dive," Sautin said afterward, "so it is very disappointing to lose.

For Daley and Goodfellow, the pursuit of the leaders had come down to the very last knockings, the final dive of 36 in a gruellingly high-end competition.

) As the final dive of the expedition, this would also be our group's last time seeing Alvin in its current configuration before he goes in for an upgrade in several months.

The Germans with whom the pair were tussling for third place, Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein, had pipped them to gold in May's European championships, in the London Aquatics Centre, where Goodfellow over-rotated on the final dive.

Wilkinson, a gold medalist in the individual platform, and her partner were still in a tight, three-way battle for the bronze with Australia and Austria heading to the final dive.

During one of the final dives of the trip, I asked MacGillivray if he was going to join us.

Boudia and Qiu performed the same final dive — a back two-and-a-half somersault with two-and-a-half twists.

The British pair, in only their second competition together, had been in the silver medal position going into the sixth and final dive.

Daley and Goodfellow's medal-winning performance in the 10m synchronised diving competition, secured by the slimmest of margins over Germany on the pair's final dive, attracted a five-minute peak audience of 7.7 million viewers to BBC1 on Monday night.

On a hot July evening in Rome, he stepped to the edge of the platform for his final dive – a reverse three-and-a-half somersault – knowing something close to perfection would be good enough to guarantee bronze.