Melbourne-born Foley, 51, has decided he does not to want to complete another four-year programme leading up to the London Olympics in 2012 and so has chosen to leave now to give his successor a chance to begin work with the likes of 14-year-old diving sensation Tom Daley.

Australian Foley has been in the post for 10 years and said he wanted to give his successor time to work with medal hope Tom Daley and the team. ...

''New diving queen'' Guo Jingjing denied she will soon move to Hong Kong amid speculation that she and Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, the playboy son of International Olympic Committee member Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, will tie the knot next year.

A Sydney-based technology firm is the brains behind much of Australia's Olympic medal haul, the NSW government says....The company provided video coaching tools, athlete management software and palm-sized PDA equipment that enabled coaches to collect and customise statistics and information to analyse individual and team performances.

BRITISH Diving's national performance director Steve Foley has praised Plymouth's programme after city stars Tom Daley and Tonia Couch finished as the ...

As a diving and gymnastics coach she was an equally positive influence on young athletes, said former longtime Redwood High School swimming coach Frank Bell...."Nothing could get her down," said Bell, who watched Watamura dive for his team in the mid-1980s and later hired her as his diving coach

Saturday’s, results were also disappointing for the Americans, who wondered why they did not win any medals in a sport in which they had once dominated. This marks the second Olympics in a row in which the United States has not won a medal. ....Bob Rydze, vice chairman of competitive excellence for USA Diving.....“Personally, I thought they had three medals easily in the synchro,” he said after the competition. After Athens, he said, “our major goal was to get reorganized and really work for 2012.”

"Obviously, we want to win medals," Rydze said. "In that respect, there's a little disappointment. I thought our synchro teams could very easily have had three medals, and I think maybe that would have taken a little pressure off the individual kids. Things start to get on a roll. But once the synchro teams did not win any medals, then (the pressure) just builds and builds and builds.

Saturday’s results were also disappointing for the Americans, who wondered why they did not win any medals during in a sport in which they had once dominated. This marks the second Olympics in a row in which the United States has not won a medal.

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A view from the 10-meter platform at the Water Cube. You can click and drag your mouse over the image to move your view in any direction. The panorama comprises a series of photographs taken over a short period of time.

Croak, a 2000 Olympian in gymnastics, suits up Wednesday in Beijing for the 10-meter platform preliminaries. The 24 year old is among a handful of athletes to compete in the Olympic Games in two different sports.

Attempting to avoid a second straight shutout in the diving medals for the United States, Laura Wilkinson was fifth after completing the second-best dive of the opening round.

Guo and Lin are the bad boy and bad girl of a sports system designed specifically to prevent such things. Yet for China’s adoring masses, all that matters is the result,..

BEIJING – 2000 Olympic gold medalist Laura Wilkinson will not perform the more difficult back 2 ½ somersaults with 2 ½ twists that she had hoped to make the final dive of her Olympic program, said her coach, Kenny Armstrong.

Wilkinson and Jessica Livingston were so convinced they deserved to be on the team after not being picked at a post-trials selection camp that they took their case to arbitration. The duo lost, leaving 10-meter platform as Wilkinson's only event in Beijing...USA Diving changed its selection process for Beijing, choosing the synchro teams at the camp instead of at the trials...."I still think there's a lot of changes that need to be made and we've been trying to do that for the last couple of years," Wilkinson said.

For a century, the United States was the unquestioned world power in diving. In Olympics from 1904 through 2000, Americans won 47 of 90 gold medals awarded, or 52 percent....."I'm looking for Team USA to knock the socks off the world," U.S. coach John Wingfield said....However, other divers have performed well enough that the United States is a genuine medal threat in each of the eight events

Diving powerhouse China on Friday unveiled an unexpected lineup for men's 10m platform diving at Beijing Olympics, with newly-crowned Olympic champion Lin Yue replaced by his synchro partner Huo Liang.
.... Although the 17-year-old grabbed the 10m platform synchro gold on home soil four days ago, he has yet to get back to his best form, Zhou added.
... Unlike other events for which the lineup has already fixed ahead of the Olympics, the two divers competing for 10m platform event kept undetermined till Friday, drawing curiosity from spectators and rivals as well.

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China's "diving diva" Guo Jingjing on Friday snatched top place in the qualifying round of her final Olympic event, after shrugging off a strong start by a rival she had called "the fat Canadian" just months earlier.

Colwill and his partner Jevon Tarantino finished fourth in the three-meter synchronized diving after a disappointing final dive. The duo had been third going into the final round.

But to get there, athletes have to submit to an austere and punishing training regime, surrender much of their personal freedom and in the case of one diver, even alter their identity."For an athlete, joy and happiness is temporary. Most of the time you have to be doing painful training," national team manager Zhou Jihong,..."Sometimes I would get really hungry but I was only allowed to drink water. I would tell myself to hold on until after the Olympics,"

Mallory Fisher was pleasantly stunned. In the biggest diving meet of her life, Julyl 31-Aug. 1 at 15U AAU Nationals in Coral Springs, Fla., fellow competitors approached her and were ... friendly.

“They both have become hard-headed,” complained Zhang Deju, the divers’ longtime Chinese coach. “It was better coaching them when they were young, when they were still in their teens.”...Fabriga, on the other hand, showed up at the Athletes’ Village at least eight pounds over his ideal diving weight, reportedly infuriating Zhang and Filipino coach Rommel Kong....

Former Olympian and NCAA champion Jenny Keim has been named N.C. State's new head diving coach after serving one season as assistant diving coach at Duke.

Britain's diving team became further mired in controversy when head coach Steve Foley claimed that the judges had 'crucified' his pair in the synchronised three metre springboard final....The American duo of Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino, who ended up finishing fourth, appeared to be particularly generously treated on at least one dive.

I may have been an Olympic Diver, but my Mom was an Olympic Driver. She is eligible for every award designed to honor someone who paid a high personal price to help another achieve an ultimate goal. She was completely unselfish in her support of my dream and made huge sacrifices, which ultimately allowed it to happen.

A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event....According to sources close to the diving team, Mr. Klujian had concealed the fact that he comes from an intact middle class family who never lost their home to a flood, tornado, or typhoon.

Laura Wilkinson and Jessica Livingston had asked an arbitrator to send them to the Olympics instead of the Dunnichay/Ishimatsu team, which was chosen at a selection camp. The arbitrator affirmed USA Diving's decision to send the young pair. ....None of the three U.S. synchro teams that train in Indy won a medal. Kelci Bryant and Ariel Rittenhouse were fourth on 3-meter, and David Boudia and Thomas Finchum were fifth on 10-meter....The United States has not won an Olympic diving medal since a gold by Wilkinson in 2000.

BEIJING, TORONTO — After four barren days without medals in Beijing, Canada's athletes and sports administrators were already pointing accusatory fingers at government for lack of funding and casting jealous eyes toward the sport infrastructures of other countries....“Why are they so good?” Diving Canada technical director Mitch Geller said Tuesday after the Chinese synchronized diving team easily won a gold medal in the women's competition and the Canadians finished seventh. “They screen tons of kids. They put them all through some very, very good fundamental training. And then the cream rises to the top.”

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
A "It keeps their muscles warm," said Joe Chirico, the Amateur Athletic Union's national diving events coordinator. "The air is usually a bit colder for the ...

The British synchronized diving team of Blake Aldridge and 14-year-old Tom Daley was hoping to contend for a medal last night. Instead, they finished dead last. It seems they blew up at each other before their final dive when Aldridge got on the phone to talk to his mother (yes, moments before their final Olympic dive). Daley reprimanded his diving partner, swearing at him, and Aldridge fired back after the event was over.

Wilkinson and Livingston had filed a complaint against USA Diving and the U.S. Olympic Committee asking to be placed on the team or have another competition to see if they or Ishimatsu and Dunnichay should compete in Beijing.