From the 5th of august to the 21st of august countries from all over the world are coming to rio for the 2016 olympics. There are 42 sports and I am going to talk to you about one of them, diving. Diving off a 10 metre diving board is equivalent to jumping off a 3 storied building, so go ahead, jump off a 3 story building with nothing to support you oh and don’t forget to smile your on T.V.
YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED! But why?
If you do not follow the rules then you get disqualified sounds simple aye but why if I told you the rules that you have to follow? Would you say, oh well I wouldn't get disqualified? or would you say, oh those are pretty tough rules to follow? Either way I am going to tell you the rules (brace yourselves.) Men have to complete 6 dives and woman have to complete 5. The dives can be a forward, back, reverse, inward or arm stand. No type of dives can be repeated other than the last one for the men. All springboard diving must be judged from a 3 metre high springboard. There are a lot… A LOT more rules but I think I want to save my breath for the rest of the year.
Perfect practice makes perfect performance.
Ever heard that saying before well the practice at the rio olympics this year was not quite perfect due to green water it is not quite clear why the water is green but it was and the practice was cancelled. What they normally do is, 4 hours a day in and out of the pools. They spend the same amount of time out of water then they do in and sometimes even longer.
The world record
The world record was set by the contestant by the name of matthew mitcham. He is a australian olympic diver that completed the height of 10 metres, 1,000 cm 32.8084 ft. That is the highest score in history!
Diving off a 10 mt diving board is equivalent to diving off a 3 storied building so go ahead jump off a 3 story building with nothing to support you and oh don’t forget to smile, you are on T.V.
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