"I was a synchro diver for a long time and won plenty of medals doing that but it does feel extra special when you win it by yourself. English and British diving is looking really strong at the moment. Both our coaches are best friends, so it’s a good feeling up there. "We are all Yorkshire-based lads, Jack and I are from Leeds and Jordan from Sheffield, and we’ve been synchro partners. To come and perform well under pressure in front of a home crowd, I couldn’t ask for any more," said Goodfellow. Last time at the Commonwealths, I won gold in the 10m synchro so it’s a completely different event and completely different board. I can’t remember the last time there was an England 1-2-3 in diving at the Commonwealth Games. While he sat fourth at the halfway stage, each of his three highest-tariff dives remained - and he made his move in round four, an excellently-executed Forward 2 1/2 Somersaults 3 Twists Pike (5156B) scoring a massive 91.65 points and pushing him up to second.Ī solid Forward 4 1/2 Somersaults Tuck (109C) in round five kept him right in that gold-medal contention, before a clutch attempt with his final dive, a Back 3 1/2 Somersaults Tuck (207C) worth 86.40 - scoring eights from the judges - was the moment that lifted him to the summit and that maiden individual title on the international stage, courtesy of a final tally of 484.45. That was then followed up by a synchronised silver for Eden Cheng and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix from the 10m platform, with Robyn Birch and Emily Martin taking bronze.įrom the springboard, the plaudits ultimately belonged to City of Leeds man Dan, whose consistency was unmatched across the six dives. With James Heatly climbing through the rounds to finish in a hard-earned fourth, it meant British Diving athletes were in the top four places of what was a competitive showpiece. Still pretty tame, say we." From the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).Goodfellow nailed his closing Back 3 1/2 Somersaults Tuck (207C) to hold Team England compatriots Jordan Houlden and Jack Laugher at bay, Jordan following up his bronze from the 1m board with 3m silver and Jack adding a 3m bronze to his two golds from the first two days of competition. Still another man, the late Charles Earle Funk, fantasized an elaborate theory based on speculation that the expression really out to be 'rip and tuck,' and said it had to do with ripping cloth and then tucking it together when making a patchwork quilt. Funk's theory : " There are a very considerable number of theories about the origin of this expression, which means 'closely contested or neck-and-neck.' 'It was nip and tuck whether the car or the train would reach the crossing first.' Some authorities claim that the expression comes from tucking in an infant ('little nipper') but this seems much to tame to us. Pretty thin? Well, even some dictionary derivations with all steps known look superficially thinner." From Heavens to Betsy! and Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (1955, Harper & Row). By successive rips and tucks the patchwork comes out even. A rip, of course, is the result of what mother does to a piece of cloth in reducing it to smaller portions the tuck the fold she makes in one such portion to sew it to another, as in making a patchwork quilt. The dictionaries, playing safe, refuse even to guess at the source, but I'll stick my neck out to suggest that perhaps Paulding was right. Porter ".wrote it both 'nip and tack' and 'nip and chuck.' But 'nip and tuck' has been common usage through the years since. Paulding's 'Westward Ho!' : 'There we were at rip and tuck, up one tree and down another.' Maybe the rip originally came from 'let 'er rip' and later became nip because of the expression 'to nip someone out,' to barely beat him, while the 'tuck' was simply an old slang word for 'vim and vigor.' Other guesses at the phrases' origins are even wilder." From the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)Ī second reference states that a dozen or so years after Mr. The earliest recorded form of the expression is found in James K.
NIP AND TUCK - "Nip and tuck pretty much means 'neck and neck,' but the latter phrase suggests, say, two runners racing at the same speed with neither one ahead of the other, while 'nip and tuck' describes a close race where the lead alternates. The short answer is, no one knows the origin. : I haven't been able to find a satisfactory explanation for the origin of the expression "nip and tuck." I understand that it means a situation of essential equality, but what is the origin of the "nip" and the "tuck?" In Reply to: Nip and Tuck posted by chicoles on December 03, 2000
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