Paris, France — Jamaica’s Yona Knight-Knowledge, competing in his third Olympic Video games, delivered a powerful efficiency within the males’s 3m springboard diving qualification on Jamaica’s Independence Day, Tuesday.
He secured a spot among the many greatest 18 athletes with a rating of 382.90 factors, advancing to the semi-finals.
Reflecting on the importance of competing on such a big day, Knight-Knowledge shared, “Completely, yeah,” he responded to a query about whether or not the celebration of Jamaica’s Independence Day energized him to carry out at his greatest.
A little bit of vitality
“I’ve had a number of competitions on Independence Day, so it’s a sense I’ve skilled earlier than, however yeah, it positively gave me a little bit of vitality. I’ve some household and associates within the crowd with their Jamaican flags, that gave me vitality, President Samuda (Christopher) was right here and that gave me vitality, so yeah, I really feel good and able to go once more tomorrow.”
Knight-Knowledge, who can also be the Jamaica males’s staff captain, executed his greatest routine in his fourth dive, a Ahead 2 ½ Somersaults two twist within the pike place, incomes 73.10 factors. He acknowledged the significance of managing expectations and specializing in development by means of the rounds. “The prelims are all about simply surviving and doing sufficient to get by means of. I’m actually pleased with my first 4 dives, they had been precisely the place I need and want them, there may be positively some room for enchancment in these,” he famous.
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Regardless of a slight dip in efficiency on his fifth dive, Knight-Knowledge remained optimistic. “My fifth dive, it dropped a little bit bit however that occurs in prelims. There have been a number of divers who made errors, and luckily, I simply minimized the errors I made, and that was sufficient to get me by means of to the semi-finals,” he defined. “So I’ll attempt to go once more tomorrow and attempt to enhance on all the things, if I can.”
Precisely the identical dives
Waiting for the semi-finals, the 29-year-old expressed confidence and a transparent deal with sustaining his composure. “There may be positively a little bit of room, it comes all the way down to very small factors. I don’t resolve these factors, it’s the judges, so I simply must do as greatest as attainable and actually attempt to repeat as a lot as I can, bear in mind the sensation of competing at this time and utilizing that to my profit tomorrow,” he mentioned.
“I’m very pleased with how I approached the competitors, so I’m going to do precisely the identical dives, no modifications, so I simply go once more.”
Knight-Knowledge will return to the pool contained in the Olympic Aquatics Centre on Wednesday morning for semi-final motion.