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Chinese divers won all four events on the final day to sweep the 2013 FINA USA Diving Grand Prix on Sunday.

U.S. Olympic medalist Troy Dumais took silver in the 3-meter springboard behind He Chao’s 53.25 points. Dumais, who won a bronze medal in synchronized 3-meter platform at the London Olympics, said he’s not ready to focus on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games yet.

“I’m taking it a day at a time. I can’t promise anything,” Dumais said. “You don’t make money in diving, I’m sorry – it’s a hobby, it’s not a career. I have to put some energy elsewhere. The only problem is, when you do that, it takes away from your diving. It’s a balancing act.”

Huang Xiaohui

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… No, not one of the disasters on reality TV.

This is Victor Minibaev off 10m.

Back 2 1/2 with 3 1/2 twists in pike.

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(via Diving News on Facebook)

According to some of the judges.

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Very few Artistic gymnasts have that kind of form and line.

Hu Yadan (19 January 1996) is a Chinese diver. She was 9th in London.

(via Thomas G Trapp on Facebook)

Splash made a huge, uh, splash Tuesday.

ABC’s diving competition series premiered to 8.8 million viewers and a 2.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, making it the network’s biggest unscripted series debut in more than two years and the highest-rated reality premiere since The X Factor in 2011.

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With Steve Foley, David Boudia and Greg Louganis.

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Thanks Tom.

Tom Daley is a reality TV star in the UK, trying to teach celebrities how to dive.

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I started to watch one episode (VIDEO). …

What’s British for … ghastly?

Jeff Gluckstein and Blake Gaudry doing what we think is the worlds first tandem double back. Can anyone confirm?

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Brandon Birchak:

Its been? done off a diving board, but this is pretty epic …

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Thanks Kendra.

… 1700 athletes from 30 countries descended on Sydney for the sixth and most successful Australian Youth Olympic Festival from January 16-20, 2013. …

DIVING
Men’s
3m Springboard – Rongquan Chen (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Ang Gao (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Springboard – China

Women’s
3m Springboard – QulinZheng (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Xiaohui Huang (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Platform – China

ARTISTIC
Women
Team – China
All Around – Tyesha Mattis (GBR)
Beam – Teal Grindle (GBR)
Floor – Amy Tinkler (GBR)
Uneven Bars – Jie Mei (CHN)
Vault – Tyesha Mathis (GBR)

Liu Zhilin photo by Nadia Boyce — see more pics from AYOG

Men
Team – Great Britain
All Around – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Floor – Dominick Cunningham (GBR) & James Hall (GBR)
Horizontal Bar – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Parallel Bars – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Pommel Horse – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Rings – Courtney Tulloch (GBR)
Vault –Di Wu (CHN)

RHYTHMIC
Team – Australia
All Around – Michaela Whitehouse (AUS)

TRAMP
Men
Individual – Changxin Liu (CHN)
Synchronised – Great Britain

Women
Individual – Yujie Jia (CHN)
Synchronised – New Zealand

2013 AYOF: Sport by sport wrap

Blob Jump Official Guinness World Record. … Cham, Switzerland, 17 Metres …

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via Rusty Pierce and Brett MacAulay, who love this kind of stuff.

How do you get to the White House?

… PRACTICE.

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Athletes don’t spend much time thinking about politics.

related – davidboudia2012 on Instagram

After Blake Aldridge’s new dive at the the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Boston …, it’s worth explaining … the twist.

Done correctly it can be one of the most aesthetically pleasing moves in the sport. And the more a diver does, the more their dive will rate on the degree-of-difficulty chart. Here some of the world’s top cliff divers break it down for you…

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Interesting. Though they land feet first — like a trampolinist — they use diving arms position to twist (one arm behind the head).

Has any cliff diver yet used other arm positions?

Clarification — “piking” only slows the twist. They need to “untilt” to stop twisting.

Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series … Boston this weekend

… a massive crowd saw UK diver Gary Hunt toughing it out with rankings leader Orlando Duque for top spot, while Blake Aldridge stunned everyone with a brand new dive.

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The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, established in 2009 … an annual international series of cliff diving events …

Divers jump from a platform at a height ranging from 26–28 m. …

Five judges score each dive based on a scale of 0 to 10 in half-point increments. …

… highest and the lowest judges’ scores will be discarded …

British divers train Bars. Already have their upstarts (kips).

Look out Beth Tweddle.

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(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)