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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.
Bob Rydze, the U.S. diving coach at the Edmonton games, blamed the tragedy on the athlete's coach, saying that Chalibashvili had been having difficulty with the dive all week in practice. In answer to a journalist's question as to why Rydze did not warn Soviet coaches, he replied that he would have appeared to be interfering in the Soviet ...
There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths. In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 meters (410 ft) on a single breath of air. A year later she ...
In April 1968, after a long struggle, Brashear was the first amputee diver to be recertified as a United States Navy diver. [9] In 1970, he became possibly the first African-American master diver , (debated between him and John Henry Turpin ) and served nine more years beyond that, achieving the rating of master chief boatswain's mate in 1971.
Paris 2024 is set to open with a 10,000-athlete, 90-boat flotilla down the river Seine, the first time the event will have been held outside the controlled environment of a single stadium.
French diver Alexis Jandard suffered an embarrassing slip during an event opening a new venue in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. French president Emmanuel Macron was in attendance at the ...
Jay Moriarity (June 16, 1978 – June 15, 2001) was a surfer from Santa Cruz, California. [1] He was an accomplished surfer, waterman, and adventurer. As a surfer, he made his reputation surfing Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California.
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