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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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...