China perfect as illness dashes Daley bid

SHANGHAI: China stayed perfect on Sunday in the world championships diving events as grieving British star Tom Daley’s hopes were hit by a last-minute illness to his 10m partner Peter

Olympic champion combined with new partner  Bo to claim his third straight world title in the event, shrugging off the loss of long-time team-mate Lin to injury.
 480.03 points, leaving Germany’s Patrick and Sascha Klein 37.02 adrift in the silver medal position with Ukrainians claiming bronze.

Individual 10m world champion Daley, 17, whose father died from brain cancer just two months ago, finished sixth with who missed a week of training with flu-like symptoms.also overcame obstacles to claim gold. The two had been together for just a matter of months after Lin was ruled out through injury, underlining the Chinese diving dynasty’s extraordinary strength in depth.

China also won the on Saturday as they target the first ever clean sweep of diving titles, after winning seven out of 10 two years ago in Rome.

Meanwhile Russia’s swimming queen Natalia claimed the event’s first gold — and her 11th world title  when she won the technical solo ahead of China’s Huang and Andrea Fuentes of Spain.