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That was 6-1/2 years ago. Had we known then what we found out last week, Louganis might have been hailed even louder and longer than he was. Then again, the greatest diver anyone has ever seen might not have been allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over...
Only a handful of people, among them his coach, Ron O'Brien, knew of Louganis' condition in September '88. When the diver pulled ahead with that last platform dive, he embraced O'Brien and started sobbing. Asked by Walters what he told O'Brien, Louganis replied, "I said that nobody will ever know what we've just been through...
...diving world soon discovered him. "The first time I saw him," said former Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee, "he was 10, and I knew he would be the greatest diver in history if he got the right coach." Lee became that coach, and at the '76 Olympics in Montreal the 16-year-old Louganis won a silver medal. It was also in Montreal that Louganis developed a big crush-on a Soviet diver called Yuri in the book. "I fell for him like a boulder off the 10-m platform," writes Louganis. It led to nothing more than...
...initial reaction was shock and sympathy when legendary Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis yesterday announced to the world that he has AIDS. Louganis is the only male diver to sweep the diving gold in consecutive Olympics - and managed to do so the second time, during the 1988 Seoul Games, despite gashing his head badly on a diving board. But TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says there is a hanging question: "Why did he wait so long to tell people?" -- especially since Louganis tested HIV positive shortly before the Seoul Games. One possible explanation: Louganis' book, which touches on the subject, goes...
...Senior diver Rich Beukema had another exceptional performance, taking both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving titles. Beukema's season has consisted of eight victories in the 3-meter and six wins in the 1-meter...