Diving was first introduced into the Olympics in 1904, where there were a total of 5 competitors, from Germany and the United States. Now, diving is a popular sport and recreational activity, and in the most recent Olympics, there was a total of 117 competitors, from across 25 countries. Since the introduction of diving to the Olympics, the sport has evolved dramatically, and can almost be considered a whole new sport.
Diving has changed over the 111 years, originally beginning as a dive for distance, and is now known for being a highly competitive environment, with the unique combination of strength and grace. Competitions have been separated into different boards (platform and springboard), women have been allowed to compete, and team …show more content…
Before the London Olympics in 2012, China claimed to have a hundred divers that were up to competing at the Olympic standard. Other countries, such as Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States, are raising their skill level, and they are now threatening China’s place at the top of the leader board, learning new dives, and being able to perform them consistently well. Of the 31 diving medals awarded in Olympic events since 1996, china has taken home 25. Compared to this, Australia has only won a total of 12 medals since 1904. Britain’s young superstar diver Tom Daley said this about the Chinese divers
“Definitely the Chinese divers don’t necessarily like pressure. If you constantly apply that pressure they sometimes falter. The Chinese domination is slowly coming to an end. Now everyone is catching them up they don’t have anywhere they can run. They don’t have many more somersaults that they can fit …show more content…
Divers cannot perform harder dives, as they are already doing the hardest dives in the world. There are also physical limitations of the divers own body which prevents adding more twists or saults to make harder dives. The women’s dives are smaller than the males because of this reason, they are limited because of their anatomy and don’t have the same strength as the men, the men having more power, which enables them to jump higher, and therefore can fit in more somersaults or twists. The dives that are now being performed at the Olympics are now the hardest dives that can physically be performed. As divers become better at performing these dives, it is going to become increasingly difficult for judges to find mistakes and pick what is wrong with the dive. Due to this, competitions will become an increasingly tense environment. With new divers coming into the higher level competitions, older divers who are more experienced have to make room and sometimes forfeit their position as a competitor to give others the opportunity. This also means that every ten or so years, there is almost a completely new field of divers, and therefore diving does not lose its quality of competition. If dives become too easy to perform and get a high score off of, for example, 205 B, a back two and a half pike, the degree of difficulty is 3.0. If it seems that it is easy to perfect this dive, then the FINA diving board will discuss lowering the degree
Diving has changed over the 111 years, originally beginning as a dive for distance, and is now known for being a highly competitive environment, with the unique combination of strength and grace. Competitions have been separated into different boards (platform and springboard), women have been allowed to compete, and team …show more content…
Before the London Olympics in 2012, China claimed to have a hundred divers that were up to competing at the Olympic standard. Other countries, such as Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States, are raising their skill level, and they are now threatening China’s place at the top of the leader board, learning new dives, and being able to perform them consistently well. Of the 31 diving medals awarded in Olympic events since 1996, china has taken home 25. Compared to this, Australia has only won a total of 12 medals since 1904. Britain’s young superstar diver Tom Daley said this about the Chinese divers
“Definitely the Chinese divers don’t necessarily like pressure. If you constantly apply that pressure they sometimes falter. The Chinese domination is slowly coming to an end. Now everyone is catching them up they don’t have anywhere they can run. They don’t have many more somersaults that they can fit …show more content…
Divers cannot perform harder dives, as they are already doing the hardest dives in the world. There are also physical limitations of the divers own body which prevents adding more twists or saults to make harder dives. The women’s dives are smaller than the males because of this reason, they are limited because of their anatomy and don’t have the same strength as the men, the men having more power, which enables them to jump higher, and therefore can fit in more somersaults or twists. The dives that are now being performed at the Olympics are now the hardest dives that can physically be performed. As divers become better at performing these dives, it is going to become increasingly difficult for judges to find mistakes and pick what is wrong with the dive. Due to this, competitions will become an increasingly tense environment. With new divers coming into the higher level competitions, older divers who are more experienced have to make room and sometimes forfeit their position as a competitor to give others the opportunity. This also means that every ten or so years, there is almost a completely new field of divers, and therefore diving does not lose its quality of competition. If dives become too easy to perform and get a high score off of, for example, 205 B, a back two and a half pike, the degree of difficulty is 3.0. If it seems that it is easy to perfect this dive, then the FINA diving board will discuss lowering the degree