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U.S. diving: Troy Dumais is sixth, Chris Colwill is 12th

By Bill Dwyre
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BEIJING -- U.S. men’s diving got two spots in the three-meter springboard finals Tuesday night at the Water Cube but produced no medals.

Ventura’s Troy Dumais, who was sixth at the Sydney and Athens Games, was sixth again. Chris Colwill of Brandon, Fla., in his first Olympics, started the finals in sixth place but slipped to 12th and last after the final six dives.

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Dumais worked his way up to fifth after the fourth dive, but then had a bad miss on his fifth dive, a reverse 3 1/2 somersault, that got him only 57.75 points from the six judges and was scored the second-lowest of any dive in the finals, after a 49.0 by Japan’s Ken Terauchi on the same dive.

The Chinese took the gold and the bronze, with the gold going to He Chong, who won by 36.25 points over Canada’s silver medalist, Alexandre Despatie. The bronze went to Qin Kai. Russian veteran Dimitry Sautin was fourth.

-- Bill Dwyre

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

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