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You are a freshman, one of two divers on the Harvard women's swimming team. You are certainly among the elite 10-meter platform divers in the country, perhaps even among the top three. You have enough talent to make it to the United State Olympic Trials or maybe even...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Diver Jacobson Makes Big Splash | 4/25/1995 | See Source »

The Championships, held in Midland, TX, attract the best divers--both collegiate and non-collegiate--in the nation. The event is a semi-yearly opportunity to gain points (which are accumulated by finishing in the top eight at national tournaments) in the national rankings. If a diver can accumulate four...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Diver Jacobson Makes Big Splash | 4/25/1995 | See Source »

"The Olympics are a long ways away," Jacobson says. "I would be just happy to qualify for the Olympic Trials. That would just be an amazing experience for me. Only two divers are taken to the Olympics. There not even a guarantee that I'll make it to the Olympic...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Diver Jacobson Makes Big Splash | 4/25/1995 | See Source »

The dive of death is a reverse 3-1/2 somersault in the tuck position. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, it had a degree of difficulty of 3.4, compounded by 2-the number of divers who had died attempting it. But the Dive of Death is what Greg Louganis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEART OF THE DIVER | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

But upon returning home to California, Louganis, as divers say, "lost the water." Disoriented and depressed, he drank, dabbled in drugs and even attempted suicide. He left the hard-nosed Lee for the gentler O'Brien, who somehow kept Louganis focused through all the fallow non-Olympic years that stretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEART OF THE DIVER | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

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