Athletes gathered at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China to train for the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Can you imagine the excitement they must be feeling at this point? I’m sure they are all taking it really seriously but I don’t know if I could resist letting out a big whoop and holler […]
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Canadian diving star, Alexandre Despatie, will have to prove his fitness to a panel of judges on July 10, 2008 in order to clinch a spot on the Olympic team. He was unable to compete during the trials last week in Victoria after […]
The US Olympic diving team added its first four members over the weekend, after the Olympic Diving Meet in Indianapolis. Going to Beijing are Indianapolis native, David Boudia (platform, pictured above), Laura Wilkinson (platform), Troy Dumais (springboard), and Christina Loukas (springboard). The rest of the team will be announced on July 7.
The Olympic diving […]
Diving has been a part of the Olympic games since 1904. Originally, only platform diving was included. Springboard was added in 1908. Women’s platform was first included in the 1912 Olympics and women’s springboard in the 1920 games. Sychronized diving was added to the games in 2000.
For the 2008 Games, there are eight events:
• 10m […]
BOYDS, Md. – Nancilea Foster (Spring, Texas) and Thomas Finchum (Indianapolis) closed out the Speedo USA Diving Spring National Championships by winning individual titles in women’s 3-meter and men’s 10-meter, respectively, on Sunday afternoon. Foster scored 347.25 points in her win, and Finchum tallied 512.05 points for his victory.
(www.usolympicteam.com)
It was Foster’s first individual title for […]
You have to agree, whenever the Olympics comes around — Summer Olympics, that is — the most watched events are the following:
Aquatics [Swimming, Diving]
Athletics
Gymnastics
They also happen to have the most events under each discipline, ergo, more gold medals that’s up for grabs. Honestly, whenever I think about the Olympics, I always picture track athletes. Hmmm.
Also, […]
Yes. Athletes of most disciplines. However, the article focused on Aquatic Athletes.
I reckon that the US have been the leader in International Aquatic Competitions, eh? I learned over the past few months that Australia’s pretty big on Swimming so finding that they come close to what the US have in terms of quality in training, […]
I’ve always like watching Diving competitions and marvel at the way they execute each dive. I’ve read somewhere that there are some divers who study ballet in order to be better at diving. I am not a diver so I cannot understand how or why it’s done.
Anyway, I came across this handy guide in judging […]
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