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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.
The men's synchronised 3 metre springboard diving competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 1 August at the Aquatics Centre within the Olympic Park. The Chinese team of Luo Yutong and Qin Kai won the gold medal.
Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform. [3]
Day one of the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials has ended, Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook will represent team USA in the 3-meter synchronized springboard event.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon won silver in the women’s 3-meter synchronized springboard event on Saturday, securing America’s first medal of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Team Cook’N Bacon, as Cook and Bacon are known, earned America’s first medal in women’s synchronized springboard diving since 2012. They were on pace to medal at the World Championships in ...
The women's synchronised 3 metre springboard diving competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 7 August at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center in Barra da Tijuca. Competition format
The American pair, in second place at the time, also earned shockingly low scores on their final dive by effectively bomb-diving. This left the Greeks , who had already taken their final dive unaware of the imminent melt-down, to claim the gold, Greece's first-ever in diving and the hosts' first gold of the 2004 Athens Olympics.