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Gregory Efthimios Louganis (/ l uː ˈ ɡ eɪ n ɪ s /; [1] born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games.
Greg Louganis is recalling the hopelessness he felt during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.. Appearing in NBC's documentary series My Generation, Louganis opens up about ...
Starting when he was just 10 years old, Olympic champion Greg Louganis trained to be the greatest diver in the world. What he ultimately became, according to many, is the greatest diver of all-time .
Considered one of the greatest divers of all time, Greg Louganis, a five-time medal winning Olympian and LGBTQ+ activist, plans to auction off three of his medals to support HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ ...
Greg Louganis was a participant in the competition and witnessed the incident. He remembered what had happened as follows: I had a premonition. I closed my eyes and plugged my ears. I knew something terrible had happened when I felt the tower shake. I heard screaming. I ran to the edge of the platform and saw a lot of blood in the pool.
American diver Greg Louganis suffered a concussion after he struck his head on the springboard during the preliminary rounds. He completed the preliminaries despite his injury, earning the highest single score of the qualifying round for his next dive and repeated the dive during the finals, earning the gold medal by a margin of 25 points.
Olympic gold medalist diver Greg Louganis will tell his HIV journey in Indy on World AIDS Day. "The first person you have to come out to is yourself."
In Seoul, 1988, Greg Louganis (played by Mario Lopez) hits the diving board while plunging towards the water cutting his head open.Splashing into the water Greg begins to have flashbacks: as a young kid being ridiculed by neighborhood bullies; his adoptive father (played by Michael Murphy) is not accepting and overbearing; winning the silver medal; the 1982 world championship; two gold medals ...