Palmer, Hernandez Advance to Women's 3m Springboard Diving Finals

Americans Krysta Palmer and Hailey Hernandez both finished in the top 12 of the women's 3m springboard diving semifinals to advance to the medal round slated for Sunday. Palmer improved on her 15th place finish in preliminaries by climbing up the leaderboard to fifth in the semis. Her final two dives, a forward piked 3 1/2 somersault in Round Four and a forward piked 2 1/2 somersault with two twists in Round 5, were her highest marks of the Tokyo Games.