Nur Dhabitah finishes last in 3m springboard final, Nurul Izzah goes out in last 32

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Olympic Games debutant Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri blazed her way to a new national record in the early round of the women's track cycling sprint event but the 20-year-old was stopped in the round of 32 and its repechage in the Paris Olympics on Friday (Aug 9).

Divers Nur Dhabitah Sabri and Bertrand Rhodict also ended their campaign after finishing last in the women's 3m springboard final and 25th out of 26 divers in the men's 10m platform preliminaries, respectively.

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00:00National diver Bertrand Rodict failed to make the cut in the men's 10-metre platform at
00:08the Paris Olympic Games.
00:11Bertrand finished 25th out of 26 divers with a total score of 313.70 points in the preliminaries
00:20at the Paris Aquatic Centre on Friday, only the top 18 advanced to the semi-final on Saturday.
00:27The 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medalist started his run with a score of 66 in his
00:34first dive, but his scores plummeted in the following dives as the difficulties increased
00:40before making his final dive with a score of 65.60.
00:45The 19-year-old and Nur Dabitar Sabri are the sole representatives from Malaysia in
00:51the diving event.
00:53In the women's 3-metre springboard final, Nur Dabitar finished last with a total score
00:58of 244.80 in the field of 12 divers.
01:04China's Chen Yiwen won gold with a score of 376, while Australia's Madison Keeney and
01:11China's Chang Yanni took silver and bronze respectively.
01:15Track cyclist Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohamed Asri ended her Olympics campaign after losing in
01:21the women's sprint round of 32 Repechage Heat 4.
01:26She finished second ahead of Ryu Ota of Japan, but behind Lauriane Jennest of Canada.
01:32She had earlier lost to Britain's Sophie Capewell in the round of 32 heats.
01:37Weightlifter Anik Kazdan, who missed out on a bronze medal by just 1kg in the 61kg event
01:43on Wednesday, said he and the coaches took a gamble to go for 174kg during the clean
01:50and jerk.
01:51He said if he had cleared it, he could have won a silver medal.
01:55Anik settled for the fourth place with a total of 297kg behind China's gold medallist Li
02:02Fabin, silver medallist Therapong Silichai of Thailand, and bronze medallist Hampton
02:08Morris of the United States.
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