Boudia & Johnson Advance to Men’s 10M Diving Semis

Andrew P. Scott-USA TODAY SportsThe preliminary men’s diving round off of the 10-meter platform went about as expected for both American (and Purdue) representatives on Friday. Both David Boudia and Steele Johnson finished in the top 18 out of 28 divers to advance to tomorrow’s semifinals. Their scores will be reset to zero and the top 12 out of the 18 semifinalists will advance to tomorrow evening’s finals after six more dives.

Boudia did the best with a cumulative score of 496.55 to finish fourth behind Tom Daley (the bronze medalist in London from Great Britain) and China’s Bo Qiu (the silver medalist in London) and Aisen Chen. All of David’s scores were over 86 except for a bad third…