Olympic Diving Writing.

Diving.A popular pastime around the world.But also an intricate professional sport.It came from people jumping off man made or natural structures.Divers perform an incredible display of flips and moves to impress the adjuticators(judges).The adjudicators then score you on the difficulty and how well the diver performed.It was first introduced officially at the 1904 Olympic games.But it can be dangerous if not done properly.When diving you can hit the pool at a staggering speed of up to 34 mph.Even proffesionals can die.One of those unfortunate people was Sergei Chalbashvili who hit his neck on the 10m platform and fractured his skull.He died of heart failure.

Has diving been an Olympic Sport since ancient times or only recently?Diving became an Olympic sport at the 1904 St Louis Games.It was first known as fancy diving hence the routines full of somersaults and twists. In the 1908 Stockholm games Springboard events were added to the schedule.At first it was only men but two olympics after it was officially introduced Women’s diving made it’s debut featuring the games,at first it was only platform diving but in the 1920 Antwerp games the Women’s Springboard event featured for the first timeThe country with the most medals since Olympics has featured in the games is USA with 138 medals!(including Rio 2016)

Jumping off cliffs and rocks?How did Diving come to be?Diving first came to be when people started to get bored,so they thought let’s go and throw ourselves of that cliff!But seriously now,Diving was first played when people dived or jumped off man made structures or natural formations such as rocks or cliffs to amuse themselves .It was thought to have first been developed in the 1800s. The first recorded competition in the UK was in 1889 in Scotland.

Did diving come from India,Slovakia or even Ukraine?Diving was becoming a popular sport in Sweden and Germany and popularity all around the world was soon too follow.In the late 1890s Otto Hagborg and C F Mauritzi came to London to introduce Fancy Diving which was being developed in Sweden and Germany.Fancy Diving was when divers performed acrobatics in mid air before splashingdown skillfully. It became a popular pastime and gradually became a world renowned sport(now known plainly as diving).

So just to recap.It came from Sweden and Germany,It came from jumping off structures and formations and it has been in the Olympics since 1904.Diving.It is a sport that is constantly changing.Even the meaning of diving has developed over time,at the beginning a dive started when you first touch the water but now it means the process of leaping and springing into the water.So you never know what it will be like in the future….

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