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The diving duo—who go by the nickname Cook N’ Bacon—scored a 314.64, sandwiching them between gold medalists Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen (337.68) from China, as well as bronze medal-winners ...
She was the dominant figure in women's diving in the United States from 1965 to 1972, winning 10 national championships, including both springboard and platform events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics , she was in first place in the three meter springboard event when she broke her left arm on the ninth dive; she completed the tenth dive, but ...
Potter was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 U.S. Olympic diving teams. She was selected to the 1980 U.S. Olympic diving team, but due to the U.S. boycott of the games that year, Potter was unable to compete. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead. [4]
In a reversal of the last U.S. Olympic diving trials, Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon secured their spots for Paris with a victory in the women’s synchronized 3-meter springboard on Monday. Cook ...
After Indianapolis was site of seven U.S. Olympic Trials in diving since 1984, the scene shifts to Knoxville, Tenn., to pick a team for the Paris Olympics.. As has been the case throughout the ...
On June 26, 2008, Wilkinson qualified as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Diving Team in diving by taking first place in the trials. She ultimately placed 9th in the Women’s 10m platform final. She announced her retirement and this Olympics would be her final competition.
Bacon, 27, was competing in her first Olympics, while Cook represented the U.S. in Rio 2016 and placed 13th in the women’s springboard diving competition. Both Cook and Bacon were in tears at ...
Kelly Anne McCormick (born February 13, 1960, in Anaheim, California) is a retired Hall of Fame female diver from the United States. She dove for Ohio State University and twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, winning a silver (1984) and a bronze medal (1988) in the Women's 3m Springboard event.