August 21 , 2010

Pamela Ware

SINGAPORE – Pamela Ware of Montreal battled through pain to finish eighth on women's 10-metre tower on Saturday in diving action at the inaugural Youth Olympics.

Ware, 17, re-injured her shoulder in training on Monday and her practices had been modified all week. Still each dive in Saturday's preliminaries and final reminded her of the injury.

"I was particularly worried about the shoulder in the preliminaries, because we do more dives," said Ware, seventh in the event at the last world junior championships in 2008. "I was happy with my performance today and how I battled through it."

Jiao Liu of China won the gold medal with 479.60 points, Pandelela Pamg of Malaysia was second at 454.35 and Hyang Sin Ji of South Korea third at 430.20. Ware totalled 373.05.

"Pam had a great practice session just before the final and we were really optimistic," said Ware's coach Aaron Dziver of Montreal. "Her second and third dives however have been inconsistent and she over rotated both. That deflated her a bit. We know (fully healthy), the result could have been different."

Ware will compete again on Monday on three-metre in which she is considered another medal potential.

On Sunday, Marc Sabourin-Germain of Mascouche, Que., competes on men's three-metre,

About Youth Olympic Games (YOG)
The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Game is being held in Singapore, from August 14th to 26th, 2010. The Youth Olympic Games strives to assemble the most talented youth athletes – between the ages of 14 and 18 – from all over the world. Additionally, non-sport participants such as youth ambassadors and young reporters participate in the event. This first edition of the Games includes approximately 3,600 athletes and 1450 officials from 26 different sports. The event will be run on a quadrennial cycle with Summer Games taking place in 2010, 2014, 2018 etc…

About Diving Plongeon Canada
Diving Plongeon Canada (DPC) was established in 1967 as a not-for-profit organization to promote the growth and awareness of the sport in this country. As a member of FINA, the world's governing body of aquatic sports, DPC contributes to the development of globally accepted standards of excellence in diving and supports the rules and regulations of international competition. Representing nine provincial diving associations, 67 local diving clubs and close to 4,000 high performance athletes, DPC shares a national commitment to advance the art and sport of diving and to position Canada as the number one diving nation of the world. For information, visit www.diving.ca.

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