Olympic Diving Scoring?

Question

Does anyone know how they get the scores in diving in the olympics like the 80's and 90's because there are only 7 numbers at the bottom?

Answer 1

Each dive has a degree of difficulty (shown as d.d.). The difficulty is predetermined based on how many flips, twists are done. You can see how it is actually determined on http://www.usadiving.org

There are 7 judges that score the dive from 0 (being the worse) to 10 (being the best) The highest and lowest two scores are dropped leaving 3 scores. Those three scores are added together and multiplied by the degree of difficulty to come up with a total.

So say for example a dive with a d.d. of 3.0 is done. THe scores are 9 9 8.5 8.5 9 8 and 8.5 The two highest are 9 and 9, and the two lowest are 8 and 8.5 leaving an 8.5/8.5/9 left. Added together they equal 26. 26 multiplied by 3.0 = 78

Answer 2

in the olympics, there are 7 judges and they knock off the two highest and the two lowest marks. the remaining three marks are added together and then multiplied by the degree of difficulty (DD) of that particular dive

Answer 3

they took away the top two and bottom two. so there would only be 3 scores.

Answer 4

The scored shaded in black at the bottom are the ones that count. They take away the 2 highest and 2 lowest and then add the 3 that count up and then multiply that by the (DD) Degree of Difficulty.