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While onlookers placed their mental bets, a slight, pretty, 20-year-old Canadian named Sylvie Bernier found a new consistency to support her delicate and precise style, and took the lead midway through the competition. McCormick, who had overrotated and made a splashing entry on her eighth dive, a reverse 2½ somersault with a tuck, which had given her trouble before, had a chance to win the gold with a superlative score on her tenth and last dive. ("Divin' is just landin' on your head ten times out of ten," she had said after the preliminary round...
Neither McCormick nor Seufert slacks courage, but each has dropped out of platform diving. McCormick once ticked the 10-meter platform with one leg after taking off, and "lost the water" (lost track of her position in the air). She landed badly, and the impact enlarged what she figures was a small cut on her shin to an ugly eight-inch gash, whose scar is still there. Seufert bruised the back of her neck severely in hitting the water on a 10-meter dive, later reinjured herself the same way, and eventually noticed a tingling in her fingers. A neurologist...
...understudy got the part and showed it had the mettle. Rehearsing to the strains of Fame, Fluff wheeled on a thermal, eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
...meter springboard and merely the favorite on the 10-meter platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives." It is not a precarious dive to Louganis, a sensitive introvert whose fear of heights relents only "when there's water underneath...
...Olympic Diving Coach Ron O'Brien observes, "Because Greg is stronger, he can go higher and dive slower and smoother. When most divers do a hard dive, they have to hurry to make it. Greg's diving looks like a slow-motion film, and he has a body perfectly proportioned for diving. His lines are graceful and beautiful." As Louganis describes the deliberateness, "A rattlesnake coils up, but he's not going to strike until he has every ounce of explosive power behind him." It is the same in diving...