{"id":1812,"date":"2018-06-21T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:46:28","slug":"diddy-final-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/21\/diddy-final-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Diddy Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1584 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/joint2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>2018 Diddy Final<\/h4>\n<p>Buoyed after finishing fourth in the league the Otters headed to this year\u2019s Diddy final last Sunday \u00a0where Workington\u2019s eight lane facility provided the first opportunity for all the qualifying teams to race at the same time in the same venue. An exciting afternoon of racing was therefore guaranteed!<\/p>\n<p>Yet again the Otters rose to the occasion producing some fantastic performances and when, a third of the way through the event, the points were tallied, all was still to play for. As the afternoon wore on the strength in depth of the bigger clubs became apparent but a fourth place was still achievable if we could take the afternoon\u2019s final event the cannon.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you have witnessed it, no words can convey the frenzied excitement of the cannon and this edition was no exception.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1808 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AD8EF584-1A27-43D1-869C-EDB47EAFF865-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AD8EF584-1A27-43D1-869C-EDB47EAFF865-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AD8EF584-1A27-43D1-869C-EDB47EAFF865-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AD8EF584-1A27-43D1-869C-EDB47EAFF865.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As in Carlisle the margin of victory was incredibly slim, but it was enough, and the double points earned enabled us to leap frog Cockermouth and take fourth behind Carnforth with Carlisle finishing second behind Kendal, who in securing the top spot in the final achieved the double.<\/p>\n<p>So a huge well done to all our swimmers and a big thank you to the coaches, officials and of course you parents for giving up your Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1813 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Diddy-Final-17.06.18-IMG_3166-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Diddy-Final-17.06.18-IMG_3166.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Diddy-Final-17.06.18-IMG_3166-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Diddy-Final-17.06.18-IMG_3166-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go Otters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 Diddy Final Buoyed after finishing fourth in the league the Otters headed to this year\u2019s Diddy final last Sunday \u00a0where Workington\u2019s eight lane facility provided the first opportunity for all the qualifying teams&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uasc.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}