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Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" [1] for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive (such as somersaults and twists).
The diving competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 10 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. [1] [2] A total of 136 divers, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across eight medal events (four per gender in both individual and synchronized) at these Games, the same amount as Tokyo 2020.
The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured eight events [1] (postponed to 2021 [2] due to the COVID-19 pandemic).It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming.
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.
Starting with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where China claimed its first diving gold, it had won 47 of 64 gold medals in diving. Add to that 23 silver and 10 bronze.
Including Thursday’s results, China has won 53 of 70 gold medals in diving since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where it won its first. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the country has won 33 of ...
Woman performing a "swallow dive", 1937. 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 the first individual diving event of these games, Quan led the way in the preliminaries with 421.25 points, followed by Chen at 382.15. China's Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi lead the way in Olympic ...