Word: splashless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Closer to earth and water, however, there was plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless plunges that make a sound like ripping cloth, in which the hands and arms drill a hole in the water for the body to follow. At first the American women, traditionally the world's best, could not match these elegant entries. They learned soon enough, but the Chinese kept...
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