Why don't all the judges marks count in Olympic Diving?

Question

There are 7 judges marks (for example between 3.5-10.00) and some marks are in light blue and some in dark blue only 3 are counted out of the 7 judges marks and it appears in randomn order as to which count?

im confused!

Answer 1

The highest two and the lowest two scores are cancelled out so that none of the judges are too biased. However with syncronised diving they are marked differently. This two individual dives are marked with two scores each and the syncronisation is marked by 4 judges. The highest and lowest from both the individual dives are cancelled and the same from the syncronisation.

Answer 2

I believe that the top and bottom marks are deleted, so as to stop any judge from giving a highly inflated / deflated mark to a diver they don't personally like.

Answer 3

As beans said, the top 2 and bottom 2 scored are cancelled. But then they add all the remainin 3 scores together and multiply that by the dive difficulty to get the final score