Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aileen was the smallest Olympian, too small to compete in her real love, swimming. Diving was just something she did instead, and it was altogether different than it is today. "In Antwerp, we dove into the city canal, a moat really, right alongside the boathouse. In those days, the two final dives were literally picked out of a hat. Our second dive was a forward somersault--you had to land feet first. Fortunately, I went last and watched as all the other girls missed theirs. Then I made mine. But the scoring system was so laborious that you often...
...addition, Steffen swam her way to 14th with 40.5 points, Iwahara won the 50-yard freestyle, and junior Kara Miller won the 1-meter dive and placed third in the 3-meter...
Kara Miller's performance at Easterns was good enough for her to qualify for the NCAA Championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the 1m dive, Miller came in 27th, and in the 3m she placed 26th. In both events, she was the top Ivy finisher...
...half a dozen colleagues were happy to stick around late one night two weeks ago until a certain piece of software arrived from corporate headquarters in Japan. When it finally showed up--packeted across the Pacific over a high-speed data line--they could hardly wait to dive in. "We were here until 2:30 a.m. playing it," said a groggy Kelbaugh the next morning. "I had to physically unplug it so we could finally get some sleep...
...dimensional horizontal scrolling video games. No more bouncing off guardrails or dissolving in fuzzy pixels on the edge of the screen. Wherever you want to go--forward, backward, left, right or anywhere in between--the scene follows you in dazzling 3D. If you want to climb a wall or dive into the moat, you can. (The water is gorgeously rendered, and it's worth the plunge just to hear the dreamy New Age sound track that accompanies underwater excursion...