Australian Rousseau into 10m diving final
Australian diver Cassiel Rousseau has comfortably advanced to Saturday afternoon's men's 10-metre platform final at the Tokyo Olympics.
Taking part in his first Games, Rousseau was ranked sixth in the field of 18 in the semi-final - with the top 12 going through to battle for the medals.
As they did in the preliminaries, Chinese duo Cao Tuan and Yang Jian dominated proceedings to be the top two qualifiers ahead of Russian Alexsandr Bondar and London 2012 bronze medallist Tom Daley from Great Britain.
After a middling start when he secured only a 67.20 for his opening dive, Rousseau was a picture on consistency in the semi-final.
His third dive was his best, a back three-and-a half somersaults in the tuck position for which he received a score of 84.15, and he finished with a six-dive total of 444.10.
Cao, the 2016 Olympics 3m springboard gold medallist, produced two dives in excess of 90 points, his final dive a 95.40 which included four nines from the seven judges.
