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Privacy Notice Having secured a gold medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016 in the 3m synchronised diving event alongside Chris Mears, Team GB diver Jack Laugher will be hoping to take home gold once more. With a place in the final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jack will be joined by Anthony Harding as they attempt to win more Olympic glory on Friday, 2 August at 10am. But while victory may be a familiar taste for Jack, it hasn’t all been easy. Just five years ago, the 29 year old was left crying himself to sleep after an error during his final dive at the 2019 World Championships in South Korea saw him drop from gold to bronze medal position. Sign up to OK!’s daily newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free
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Having led from the first round until his final routine, the Team GB star had been on track to challenge the world record total of 572.90 in the 3m springboard. Sadly, he scored just 30.60 in the sixth round, meaning that his total sat at 504.55. “I was winning by 30 or 40 points against the Chinese which was unbelievable and I just had a shocker. I embarrassed myself with my final dive and the mistakes and the failure that I had there, it crushed me, it really, really crushed me. It put me in a place that was just terrible,” he told the Daily Mail.
Jack has opened up about how one error during a dive led to him crying himself to sleep
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“I cried myself to sleep quite a few times. I had a lot of sleepless nights because I still made that same mistake.” The diver, who has set up an OnlyFans page, also added that he’d “wanted to quit” the sport after being left with “no confidence” and feeling “physically scared” to do the dive. Speaking to the BBC about the dive at the time, Jack, from North Yorkshire, added that he felt “dead inside” and “punched a wall like an idiot” after taking home bronze. “That’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life,” he said.
Jack revealed that the dive would “haunt” him for the rest of his life
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Thankfully, Jack managed to restore his confidence in the sport and later made it to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 where he won the bronze medal in the individual 3m springboard. Meanwhile, as he and diving partner Anthony take on the men’s 3m springboard synchronised final in Paris, the pair look to be in a good position after scooping gold at the British Diving Championships in Birmingham in May. “We weren’t firing on all cylinders. It’s the morning but what is great about this competition is it is the same time as our one in Paris will be, so it was a great little run through,” he told the BBC.
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