Canadians Eric Sehn and Kevin Geyson believe their Olympic dreams are within reach after placing eighth on Sunday in the men's 10-metre synchronized diving event at the FINA world aquatic championships.
If the duo can match the top-eight performance at a FINA World Cup meet in February, they'll punch their ticket to the 2012 Olympics in London.
"We're really excited by our performance today," Sehn, of Edmonton, said in a news release. "It really puts it in perspective that it is possible for us to get that Olympic spot especially when you consider we did miss a dive in the final. We concentrated really well and our diving was strong overall."
Sehn and Geyson could have qualified on Sunday had they placed in the Top 3 at the worlds, but their score of 386.70 came up about 50 points short.
Bo Qiu and Liang Huo of China won the gold medal in dominating fashion, scoring 480.03. Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein of Germany placed second with a score of 443.01 and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov and Oleksandr Bondar of Ukraine were third at 435.36.
"We are progressing really fast," Geyson, of Winnipeg, said. "It's an amazing result today considering we've been together for less than a year and other teams have been together for many years. This was my first worlds and I was really happy we kept it together and picked it up in the final."
Also Sunday, Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., was 14th in the women's one-metre springboard preliminaries and failed to advance to the final.
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