Half a lifetime since becoming an Olympic teenage sensation, Melissa Wu plunges into the record books again by diving for Australia in a record five Games — and reaching a fifth 10-metre platform final.
Half a lifetime since becoming an Olympic teenage sensation, Melissa Wu has plunged into the record books again by diving for Australia in a record five Games — and reaching a fifth 10-metre platform final.
The elegant 17-year-old actually eclipsed her hero, finishing as the sixth-best qualifier from the semifinals with her five dives scoring 309.90 points, while Wu edged in as the 11th of the dozen finalists on 294.10. It was 16 years ago at the Beijing Games that Wu, at 16 years and 101 days, became the youngest Australian diver to win an Olympic medal in the synchro and just three years ago, in her fourth Games, she took her first individual medal.
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