"I dive with emotions. I'm a very passionate person, about my sport and about what I do."...His diving coach, Jay Larew of Team Orlando, says, "When the chips are down, he'll do it."

Extreme sport has competitors on the edge - of cliffs

A potential Olympic sport? Cliff diving reaches new heights in the Kimberley...Some of the world's leaders in the sport of cliff diving have been touring the Kimberley's most spectacular gorges in pursuit of the ultimate dive.

Fu Mingxia, who also won many gold medals in Olympics and world championships, entered Tsinghua University right after retirement and is already a happy mother, having married Hong Kong's former Financial Secretary Anthony Leung.... Some athletes chose to continue their sports careers as coaches, such as the former "Diving Queen" Gao Min,

...U.S. diving's glory days are graying alongside four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, who worked the trials crowd one day last week with a signing pen and a handshake...That reality has U.S. diving officials trying to maximize the U.S. team's medal potential, even at the cost of some trials controversy.

Twenty years ago, the results of the U.S. Olympic diving trials would have all but foretold the results of the Olympics. .... "It used to be that sports added something to the rest of your life," O'Brien said. "Now they're what you do instead of the rest of your life." more

The contest came down to the last dive, a 305B, by the last diver, Soldati. Kimiko rose to the occasion and received 8’s from the judges and a 10-point victory over Kunkel and a 14-point margin over 2000 Olympian, Michelle Davidson. more

Life is hard and can get difficult at times. How we respond under these circumstances can determine the outcome. On Tuesday night at the Olympic Trials in St. Louis an individual took the board and competed in an event that she qualified for over a year ago, but a lot can happen in a year. more

"It's a bit of disbelief," said Wilcock, a Utah native who has been training at The Woodlands, Texas, the past two years. "I think I'm still in a bit of shock." ..Dumais had no such emotion, though he was ready to celebrate after a long week of diving. ...
"Call the casino," he said as he left the news conference. "They're going to lose some money tonight."

The inaugural event would feature competition from June 9 -12, 2005. As many as 1,000 athletes are expected to compete in sports ranging from track and field to basketball to diving to table tennis and badminton. Venues will include KeyArena, the Tacoma Dome and Seahawks Stadium.

The disease most often strikes middle-aged women. "A 25-year-old male elite athlete is about as far from the stereotypical Graves patient as you can get," he says. Now, he has his doctors baffled.

Blythe Hartley appears as comfortable in front of a camera as she is atop a board "The Olympics are like no other meet you'll ever go to and I've attended a lot of meets," said Hartley, holder of 17 Canadian titles and a double-gold medallist at the 2003 Pan-Am Games. "The whole world has this one thing to focus on for two weeks."

Sara Hildebrand and Cassandra Cardinell were flawless in their execution and near perfect in their Syncro to take the lead over 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist, Laura Wilkinson and Kimiko Soldati 326.97 to 304.02. more

In the 3rd round, Troy and Justin “RIPPED” their 107B for 9’s and put themselves ahead of the pack to stay for the rest of the day. In third place with a score of 291.93 are Clayton Moss, Kentucky Diving and Justin Wilcock, CTC. more

Plymouth's Gerrard Diving Club's under-18 team have become British champions after returning with a haul of medals from the National Age Group Championships..more

Springing ahead of the rest, Kimiko Soldati leads the women’s 3-meter event at the USA Olympic Diving Trials in St. Louis, Missouri. Soldati, CTC, leads by 19 points over Rachelle Kunkel, Trojan Dive Club. 2000 Olympian Michelle Davidson is in the hunt for another O-Team spot in 3rd place, 7 points out. more

2004 Senior National Information

Laura Wilkinson. From the first dive to the last, Laura led the event and looked in Gold Medal form. Jessica Livingston from the Woodlands Diving team is in second place with a score of 502.53. Jessica, who began her diving career at the Rec Plex in St. Louis with Doug Beavers and Lighting Diving more

After the first two rounds of diving in St. Louis, Missouri, it is Auburn Diving’s Caesar Garcia leading the way with a total score of 647.25. Thomas Finchum, Indianapolis Regional Training Center is in second with 620.13. more

First for Kellie Brennan came the diagnosis of Crohn's disease in 2002. Next up was treatment for cervical cancer in January last year - about two weeks before she underwent surgery for a brain tumor.
"Everybody's got something, right?" Brennan said, laughing. "You become a warrior. You become a soldier." And, somehow, you stay a diver: more

The interviewer, a reporter for a Chinese television station, spoke perfectly good English, so Laura Wilkinson had no problems understanding the question. Exactly how does it feel, Wilkinson was asked, to be a has-been? more

But losing her lunch wasn't on the menu for Hartley yesterday at the Diving Olympic Trials. ... She already had a spot sewn up in the women's 3-metre springboard

Diving's cruel twists and turns fail to dim the competitive spirit of three Olympic hopefuls

SARAWAK continued with their domination in the diving competition when they picked up the two gold medals contested at the Aquatic Centre in Paroi yesterday....Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Jimie beat her more fancied rival and teammate Rosatimah Mohd to win her third gold medal in the individual girls' 10m platform event.

FORMER Olympian Mohd Azheem Bahari is back on the diving board after a two-year hiatus. 

Ryan Funderburk, Summerfield, N.C., North Carolina Aquatic Club (Coach Kevin Lawrence). Runnerup at 2004 North Carolina High School Championships in one-meter diving. Member of the U.S. Junior National Trampoline Team. World Junior Trampoline Championships qualifier. Signs with University of North Carolina

Illinois State diver Katie Zaumseil (Boylan) earned academic honors and will train this summer at the University of Arizona under the tutelage of former Olympic silver medalist Michelle Mitchell-Rocha.

USA Diving East Nationals Championships
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Moltrie GA
April 2004
Photos by Joe Chirico