Diving
The United States finalized its nomination process for the Olympic diving squad on July 7, 2008. For the first time since 1996, the U.S. diving team qualified for all individual and synchronized events. It became a major power in the Olympics from 1904 to 2000, winning 47 of 90 gold medals, but left out of the medals for the second consecutive Olympics.
- Men
| Athlete | Events | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Chris Colwill | 3 m springboard | 464.75 | 7 Q | 480.95 | 6 Q | 425.90 | 12 |
| Troy Dumais | 448.40 | 12 Q | 463.15 | 10 Q | 472.50 | 6 | |
| David Boudia | 10 m platform | 481.70 | 6 Q | 491.55 | 5 Q | 441.45 | 10 |
| Thomas Finchum | 477.00 | 7 Q | 474.95 | 7 Q | 412.65 | 12 | |
| Chris Colwill Jevon Tarantino |
3 m synchronized springboard | 410.73 | 4 | ||||
| David Boudia Thomas Finchum |
10 m synchronized platform | 440.64 | 5 | ||||
- Women
| Athlete | Events | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Nancilea Foster | 3 m springboard | 300.15 | 11 Q | 338.90 | 4 Q | 316.70 | 8 |
| Christina Loukas | 312.60 | 8 Q | 329.00 | 7 Q | 315.70 | 9 | |
| Haley Ishimatsu | 10 m platform | 329.00 | 10 Q | 292.95 | 14 | Did not advance | |
| Laura Wilkinson | 370.70 | 5 Q | 346.10 | 6 Q | 311.80 | 9 | |
| Kelci Bryant Ariel Rittenhouse |
3 m synchronized springboard | 314.40 | 4 | ||||
| Mary Beth Dunnichay Haley Ishimatsu |
10 m synchronized platform | 309.12 | 5 | ||||
Read more about this topic: United States At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word diving:
“all the fine
Points of diving feet together toes pointed hands shaped right
To insert her into water like a needle”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)