# Olympics: diving scoring

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympics-diving-scoring/630010>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympics-diving-scoring/630010 "2012-08-01T00:46:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympics-diving-scoring/630010/1 "2012-08-01T00:46:46Z")

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There’s been a lot of synchronized diving on, and I’m curious about the scoring. I found [this old thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=39891) about it, but that’s not what I’m seeing in the scoring. From what NBC is showing, there are 6 “execution” scores (4 greyed out) and 5 “synchronization” scores (2 greyed out).

It appears that of the “execution” scores, they are indeed throwing out the highest and lowest, but then they seem to be throwing out the 2 middle scores as well. For example, on one of the dives the “execution” scores were [del]5.0[/del] **6.0** [del]7.0[/del] [del]8.0[/del] **8.5** [del]8.5[/del].

Can someone explain this to me?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympics-diving-scoring/630010/2 "2012-08-01T02:31:58Z")

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[http://diving.about.com/od/rules/a/ScoreSynchro.htm](http://diving.about.com/od/rules/a/ScoreSynchro.htm)

Each diver gets execution scores, with the high and low for each diver discarded.