Team England springboard diver Alicia Blagg has insisted that winning a gold medal on day one of the Commonwealth Games' diving hasn't affected her individual performance since.
Blagg and Rebecca Gallantree won synchronised 3m gold for England in dramatic fashion with the last dive of the evening on Wednesday.
Although Blagg, 17, admitted that she might prefer doing individual 1m and 3m before the springboard synchro, she didn't think that gold has damaged her focus in the rest of the competition at Edinburgh's Royal Commonwealth Pool.
"I sometimes wish that it was the other way around, like I did all my individuals before the [3m synchro], but I don't think that it has affected me in any way," she told Sports Mole.
"[Winning] should be a positive. It should make me be more positive and more confident about myself."
Although she won gold with Gallantree at 3m, Wakefield-born Blagg revealed that she actually prefers the 1m springboard.
"I prefer 1m - it's a chilled out competition and 3m is more serious," she added.
Last night she finished 10th in the 1m final before this morning booking her place in the 3m final later tonight with the sixth-best score.
Pascal Lemesre
