Slip-up costs Pandelela individual medal


Pandelela Rinong competes during the diving women's 10m platform final at the Optus Aquatic Centre on April 12, 2018. -AFP

DIVER Pandelela Rinong will go home with one medal for the first time in eight years after a slip-up in the women’s 10m platform individual.

The Sarawakian had looked good to add another medal after topping the qualifying but a bad start (55.50) and a wobbly finish (64.0) put paid to the three-time Olympian’s medal hopes at the Optus Aquatic Centre.

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