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According to Olympic diving champion Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, Chalibashvili went to the Universiade without a coach. [5] According to reports, Chalibashvili's coach was his mother, Thais Muntean, who worked at the department of water sports at the Georgian State Institute of Physical Education (now dissolved and converted into a chair at the ...
The initial investigation was conducted by local park agents who consulted a range of diving specialists, but it was soon taken over by National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB), who stopped consulting with diving accident experts, and did not even call in their own diving safety officer, dive team or diving control board, who ...
The DAN fatalities workshop of 2011 found that there is a real problem that divers do not follow the procedures they have been trained in, and dive significantly beyond their training, experience, and fitness levels, and that this was the basic cause of most accidents. In litigation involving diving accidents, the legal panel reported that 85% ...
A top French diver suffered an embarrassing – and painful – moment during the inaugural event for a venue that will host diving, swimming and water polo during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
By PIX11 EAST MEADOW, N.Y. -- What began as a day trip to Jones Beach on May 17 ended in near tragedy for 17-year-old Nico Fiorello. "I dove in and then hit the ground with my head and then after ...
High diving can be performed as an adventure sport (as with cliff diving), as a performance stunt (as with many records attempts), or competitively during sporting events. It debuted at a FINA event at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona , after the sport was added to the federation's list of disciplines.
Spencer Webb, an Oregon tight end heading into his fifth season with the Ducks, died Wednesday afternoon in a cliff-diving accident at the age of 22, the Lane County Sheriff's Office confirmed ...
Royston Albert Fransen (born 4 January 1916 in Tottenham, north London, England; died 5 July 1985) was a British high diver and stuntman. He was best known for his public displays of high and acrobatic diving, usually into shallow depth tanks and pools. These high dives were often performed with both diver and water surface being set ablaze ...