Team GB earned its first medal of Paris 2024 after Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen claimed diving bronze in dramatic circumstances
Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper claim bronze. On a dramatic opening morning in the Aquatics Centre, Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper claimed a bronze medal in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard, proving one of the oldest truisms in sport. You need talent, you need training, you need dedication and you need resilience. But sometimes, you also need a little luck.
Instead, as they made their final spring, Smith slipped on the corner of the board and flew off at an angle, spinning and landing with all the grace of a crash test dummy being hurled out of an upstairs window. The dream was over; four years of hard work detonated with an almighty splash, and afterwards Smith – who came into this competition with a reputation as the more reliable of the pair – was utterly inconsolable.
“To watch them not perform on the last round, I feel like I knew straight away that it wasn’t enough,” said Harper, who turns 24 on Sunday and will compete in the individual competition on 7 August. “It’s basically a dream come true. And it’s all we’ve worked towards.” But then, these are two women who have sailed through far tougher waters. Mew Jensen, from Tower Hamlets, crashed out of the Tokyo Games three years ago, and just a couple of months later was plunged into grief over the death of her coach David Jenkins from sudden adult death syndrome. He was just 31.
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