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Johnson began diving at age seven. [1]He suffered a potentially fatal head injury on January 21, 2009, at the age of 12. [5] While attempting a reverse 3 1 ⁄ 2 somersault in tuck position, he struck his head on the concrete platform.
The Diving competition in the 1983 Summer Universiade were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.. The men's 10 metre competition was marred by tragedy when Soviet diver Sergei Chalibashvili hit his head on the platform while attempting a reverse 3½ somersault in the tuck position, one of the most difficult dives in the sport; he died the next week without ever regaining consciousness.
tuck – body folded up in a tight ball, hands holding the shins and toes pointed (the easiest of the four) free – indicates a twisting dive, and a combination of other positions. In the transition between two positions the diver may for example bend their legs or curve at the waist, and points will not be deducted for doing so.
A few years later a similar dive killed Nathan Meade (1966 – 1987), an Australian athlete in training. [6] [7] [8] Greg Louganis earned a gold medal with the same dive at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [9] At the University of Calgary, there was a memorial scholarship named after Chalibashvili for members of the university's swim team. [10]
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An intermediate break of position can receive no more than 4.5 points from each judge. If a dive is done in a completely different position than announced: for example back triple tuck instead of back triple pike, the dive can only receive a maximum of 2 points.
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