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Well since you're down there Jome, if you happen to see a bald Egyptian/armenian diver with an omer camo spearfishing wetsuit..(you cant miss him), tell him hi for me, thats Ashod Papazian the egyptian freediving champ and that omer wetsuit is actually MINE (but thats a whole other funny story)
Hya - another update from the front.
As you heard the weather is bad (really) - we are talking 1m waves here and is does not seem to have any intention of dying down...
Women's CWT is supposed to start at 13:00 (not 13:15) but there has been no improvement in the weather so it is not unlikely that the event will be postponed for tomorrow - in that case it will be women and men diving together (this is going to be really crowded with 105 athletes diving)
On of the main problems with the waves (which jome did not encounter) is that as the competition lines are supported on floating platforms the lines are flying up and down by as much as 2m ... this means that the (stainless steel) bottom plates are flying up and down by as much as 2m with the lines and there have been training dives where the plate "attacked the diver" (I think lotta got hit by the plate a couple of days ago)
So all in all it looks ... a lot of nervous women walking around or stretching in their rooms and a constant annoying wind .
I am off to see if the womens CWT will go ahead or get postponed - I'll try and get you the info later on
Cheers Stavros