2012 National Diving Competition & Olympic Trials was closed in Changzhou Olympic Sports Center on May 4th. Hubei players Zhu Jiaming and Liu Huixia won the first prize in women’s synchronized ...
The individual diving events at the Olympics consist of three rounds: preliminary, semifinal and final. The preliminary round trims the field of divers to 18, which is then reduced to 12 after the ...
Platform divers hit the water at speeds between 30 and 35 miles per hour. Repeating this impact too often can result in injury. What is an Olympic diving springboard made of? All modern major diving ...
Like Louganis, he won five Olympic medals. But McCormick and Dibiasi were not as dominant as Louganis. Not just in their time. For all-time. The first to amass 700 points in a diving competition ...
He became only the second athlete to win double diving golds in two Olympics (McCormick did it in 1952 and 1956). After announcing his retirement from competition in 1989, Louganis became a stage ...
Praasterink grew up in a small Dutch village before her family moved to Eindhoven to support her diving career. A member of the Dutch National Diving Team, she developed her skills over the years. “My ...