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Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognised sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.
Diving board may refer to: Springboard; Diving platform, referred to as a "tower" or sometimes "firm board" The Diving Board, a 2013 album by Elton John
The Diving Board is the twenty-ninth studio album by English musician Elton John. [2] It is the second of his studio releases since 1979's Victim of Love without any of his regular Elton John Band members.
A typical requirement for indoor facilities is that they must provide 5 metres (16 ft) clearance above the highest diving board or platform, so that divers do not hit a ceiling structure. [ 1 ] The competitive sport of diving has included the 10-meter dive as an Olympic event since the 1904 Summer Olympics .
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.
The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed a running plain dive and a running forward somersault from the 1 metre board, a standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 3 metre board, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 3 metre board. Five judges scored each diver, giving two ...
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He also competed in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and was 13th after hitting the diving board with his hand during the event. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ] He was 18th in the preliminaries for the springboard event (with 497.55 points) so did not qualify for the finals.