He will compete in all four medal events in diving - three-metre individual, 3m synchronised, 10m individual, 10m synchronised - having done the full Olympic program in Sydney four years ago and at World Cups since.

Chinese diving team, the five-gold winners at last Olympics, employ a 3D imaging system to give the divers a full view of everymove they do in the air..... "It is of great help," said Li Dazheng, top diving official in the Chinese Swimming Association. "It enables the divers to see every detail of their series of moves starting from jumping off." Enditem

Every year thousands of Fort Wayne teens experience high school for the first time, and this fall, 14-year old Michael Frank will be one of them.
    But that won't be his only significant transition. Not only does he have to adapt to high school life as a student, he also has to adapt to life as a high school diver.

Nine teams, two days, one winner. After two months, the Princeton Area Diving (NJ) season came to an end at the championship meet, which was held Wednesday and Thursday at Ben Franklin Swim Club in Lawrence. "Michael dives club on Blue Dolphins year round, but this is where he shines," said Brooke Zacheis, the West Windsor Whalers head coach.

After a stellar prep and collegiate diving career as a competitor, Adam Soldati - a 1992 Sonoma Valley High School (SVHS) graduate - became a dedicated and successful coach whose world revolves around the sport.

In a ceremony at the Presidential Residence of Los Pinos, Fox handed over the Mexican flag to diver Fernando Platas, in the presence of nearly 50 athletes... Platas, 32, is the third flag carrier in the Mexican history toplay that role twice (Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004) like Jesus Aguirre (Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928) and Joaquin Capilla (Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956). Enditem

But Essenpreis had a diving coach who lived the faith by example and became a role model to her. She and her brother, who was in sixth grade, asked their parents about going to church, and the family began attending Northlake Baptist Church in Garland.

Diving coach Wenbo Chen said McCambridge had done OK but struggled with some new dives that she hasn’t had time to perfect, something that also hindered her at the trials for the U.S. Olympic diving team in June.

Ally has become a shadow of his former self under the tutelege of Brendan Ingle losing more than two stones in weight under Ingle's legendary fitness and diet regime.
The man who coached Prince Naseem Hamed to world boxing titles is now training Ally for Olympic success and they both now realise there are more similarities between boxing and diving than you might think. Here he explains why . . .

A HORNCHURCH student hopes to make a big splash at the Athens Olympics. She won a scholarship to South Carolina, USA, where she is currently studying for a degree while having access to top training facilities.

"If there's any time to shine, first of all, it's at the Olympics," said Troy Dumais.    And the 24-year-old diver knows that better than most.

KUALA LUMPUR: Coach Yang Zhuliang is targeting national number one women's diver Leong Mun Yee to become the first-ever Malaysian to qualify for the Olympic 3m springboard final in Athens next month....Mun Yee is one of the three Malaysian divers for the Olympics and she has switched to a higher degree of difficulty in her dives after a month-long training stint in China. 

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"I think I'm a pretty lazy person. I'm never going to walk up the stairs," she said. "Sometimes at home if I don't have the TV remote and I don't like the shows on TV, I'm just going to leave it there because I don't want to get up."...But she says the draw of competition is what makes her want to dive the full menu in Athens. She'd rather be diving than watching.