PAIN in her lower back will not stop diver Pandelela Rinong from trying to earn Malaysia's first Olympic ticket in today's women's 10-metre platform individual at the World Aquatic Championships in Shanghai.
Pandelela is not at her best after injuring her lower back in training but the 18-year-old is determined to go all the way in her pet event.
The diver was almost in tears on Monday when she and Leong Mun Yee could only finish sixth in the 10m platform discipline after failing to execute a perfect dive in their fourth attempt.
Pandelela's focus today will be to clinch an Olympic place.
"My target is to earn my place into next year's London Olympic Games. It will be tough to get a medal as my condition is not so good. I can't execute certain moves to earn high points," said Pandelela when contacted in Shanghai yesterday.
Only the 12 finalists in the individual 3m springboard and 10m platform in Shanghai qualify for next year's Olympic Games.
Pandelela, who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has been making headlines in the 10m platform individual event over the past three years.
She won gold medals in last year's New Delhi Commonwealth Games and the Singapore Youth Olympics before claiming a bronze behind China's divers in the Guangzhou Asian Games.
Pandelela also made a breakthrough in March in the FINA Diving World Series in Moscow by bagging a silver medal.
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