[dirtboy]

Worst Olympic Dive. Ever. Has to be seen to be believed.

[fwdude]

Vodka?

[dfwgator]

Should have done "The Triple Lindy"

[Billthedrill]

Wait...you’re not supposed to enter the water like that? Well, I do! Because I meant to. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

[BykrBayb]

Is this the direct link to the video?
https://youtu.be/aAgNqJ-kcas

[LouieFisk]

I know nothing about competitive diving, so even this belly flop looks good to me.

[TomGuy]

Actual Zakharov dive video from NBCSports [it seems a lot of website links and posters are video-link-challenged]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4um56U454

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Chinese are having some competition problems in Rio, too. I saw the end of the women’s beach volleyball. They lost the final match by something like 21 to 9.

Then of course was the American-muslim-in-a-headscarf who lost her 2nd bout in fencing and was elimiated early on.

[Newtoidaho]

Good thing for these belly floppers that it’s mostly empty seats, very few actual spectators.

[jimmygrace]

and then there was that Ukranian gymnast who just showed up and sat back down. What was the story behind that? Was he protesting something? I never got the full story.

[dainbramaged]

I miss the Acapulco cliff divers on ABC’s Wide World of Sports.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

It was painful to watch. He was clearly pushed beyond his limits and got worse on successive dives.

I was half expecting him to jump off of the other end of the board to the asphalt below by this time.

When he entered the water, I thought he might try to crawl into the magical kingdom found in the drain at the bottom and hide there (early Twilight Zone reference).

[BookmanTheJanitor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T0OLR4MzrM

these people know how to belly flop

[Freee-dame]

There were strong winds during the preliminaries with gusts to 46 mph. I saw him hit his feet on the board during an early dive. I couldn't believe that he even continued with the rest of his dives.

The American team had trained in an outdoor pool in northern Brazil just before the Olympics. The windy conditions there helped them deal with the winds during the competition. Some divers, perhaps this one, did all of their training in an indoor pool. I feel sorry for an athlete who trains for a long time and then gets injured during competition.

[Gamecock]

What is worse? Doing a belly flop or oversleeping and missing your event?

[smokingfrog]

Ouch!

[Psalm 73]

He should have just used the opportunity to pull a “triple Lindy” like Rodney Dangerfield....

[Hot Tabasco]

Just saw it and have to believe that Zakharov is on drugs as evidenced by his skin and bones physique...totally uncharacteristic of all fellow present and past divers.

That was indeed the worst olympic dive ever, especially coming from a Russian.

[Conservative Gato]

I saw this live earlier, crazy stuff. This Russian won gold in diving in 2012 and he’s been all over the place this Olympics.

CGato