Gary Hunt will not settle for second best in Sunday's final in Hawaii even though it would be enough to guarantee him the World Series title.
'I want first place... I'm going for the win' – Gary
The 26-year-old Englishman needs only a single point from the final competition to be confirmed as the next winner of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
In the history of sporting shocks, it would rank alongside Devon Loch if Hunt failed to capture the title now – a title he has coveted ever since finishing a close second to Orlando Duque in 2009.
Despite possessing such a sizeable lead, Hunt insists there will be no let-up.
"It will feel better to be the champion having been on the first place on the podium in the final competition so I’m going to be going for the win," said Hunt.
The Triple Quad, the most formidable weapon in his arsenal of dives, has blown many of his rivals out of the water over the course of the last five months.
Not even nine-times world champion Orlando Duque has been able to counter the dive's effectiveness.
"I want to end with a win but it’s a case of putting my three dives together in the competition," said Duque. "If I can do it then I know I can put a lot of pressure on the other guys, however if Gary and Artem [Silchenko] do really good competitions then it is not possible for me to win because they’re ahead of me in their degree of difficulty."
The judges' scores are multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty to give an overall score for each dive.
The Triple Quad has a DD of 6.3, 0.7 points higher than the hardest dive executed by Duque in competition this year.
Win not enough for Hunt