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"Their divers just blew us away," Scalise said. "They are extremely talented. That was the difference in the meet."
At the diving preliminaries of the Harvard Invitational yesterday afternoon, it was hard to miss the parade of divers taking their leaps off the board. But if you looked carefully enough, you would have seen five men sitting calmly by the side of the pool flashing numbers after each dive...
Unlike the divers, who nervously approached each dive, the coaches seemed relaxed. They also judged incredibly quickly; the divers had hardly completed their dive when the scores were read. Watching all this, one couldn't help but wonder how one goes about judging a dive. Conversations with the coaches revealed...
Keck also tries to judge the divers relative to each other rather than to some gold standard.
ST. CROIX, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. Five centuries after the event, the U.S. National Park Service has dedicated a park at the only documented site now part of the U.S. where Christopher Columbus' crew landed on the explorer's second voyage to the New World; the date was Nov. 14, 1493...