101. Helm Snatches Diving Silver - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport. The 2004 Athens Olympics. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200408/s1187339.htm

@import "/olympics/2004/css/main.css"; Skip navigation ABC Home Radio Television ... News Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport. Home Features Program Results ... Galleries Search this site Print Email Matthew Helm scored 99.96 with his last jump to snatch the silver medal. (Getty Images) Helm snatches diving silver Last Updated: Sunday, August 29, 2004. 5:25am (AEST) Australian diver Matthew Helm has won silver in the men's 10 metre platform event at the Athens Olympics. Helm finished with an overall total of 730.56 points, 17.52 points behind Chinese gold medal winner Hu Jia (748.08). Tian Liang of China claimed bronze with 729.66. Helm scored 99.96 with his last jump to snatch silver from Liang. His second place is the highest Olympic finish for an Australian man since Dick Eve's gold in the high dive in 1924. "I've surpassed my expectations," said the 23-year-old, who achieved four 10s for his final dive - a back two-and-a-half somersault one-and-a-half twists pike. "Going into that last round I knew I had to do a really special dive. "I knew I couldn't reach the Chinese and had to have a damn good dive because Alex (Despatie) was just behind. He missed it, but I didn't know that."

102. ESPN Classic - Louganis Never Lost Drive To Dive Greg Louganis is the first male diver to win successive double olympic gold To pick one athlete as the greatest ever in his or her sport is a good way http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Louganis_Greg.html

ESPN Network: ESPN.com NBA.com NHL.com WNBA.com ... ProRodeo ALSO SEE Louganis overcame odds to earn Olympic gold Louganis never lost drive to dive By Ron Flatter Special to ESPN.com "When my cousin told me that I was HIV positive, it's one of those things when you get the information, it's a ringing in your head, and you can't hear anything. A real hollow feeling. And I wasn't sure what I was going to do," says Greg Louganis on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. To pick one athlete as the greatest ever in his or her sport is a good way to start an argument. But maybe not in every sport. Greg Louganis, who is of Samoan descent, won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Try thinking of anyone who was a better diver than Greg Louganis. Pat McCormick? Like Louganis, she doubled with gold medals in the springboard and the platform in successive Olympics. Klaus Dibiasi? Like Louganis, he won five Olympic medals. But McCormick and Dibiasi were not as dominant as Louganis. Not just in their time. For all-time. In 1984, he became the first to register 700 points in platform diving under the current scoring system. Only the 1980 American boycott of the Moscow Games prevented Louganis from piling more gold onto his Olympic resume. Even when he hit his head on the springboard executing a dive in 1988, Louganis still won an Olympic championship.

103. A Funkaoshi Production :: Blog :: 10M Platform Diving China had two great divers in this years Olympics, Li Ting, and Lao Lishi. (Though I wonder if in a sport like diving if the difference between the men http://funkaoshi.com/blog/10m-platform-diving

Skip To Content Ramanan Sivaranjan presents A Funkaoshi Production Recent Comments Sections: About Archive Contact Links ... Photoblog Blogs I Read: Dave Dinu Gary Haran ... More Blogs... Search: I am participating in the CIBC run for the cure . Please consider donating to support the effort to find a cure for breast cancer: donate online 10M Platform Diving 22 August 2004, mid-afternoon Fu Mingxia was quite infectious. China had two great divers in this years Olympics, Li Ting , and Lao Lishi . They both were amazing to watch. I was hoping Li Ting would do better, she ended up placing 6th . Her last dive was incredible though; flawless. It was the highest scoring dive of the heat with a score of 91.80. Lao Lishi got the silver medal, just shy of the Australian Chantelle Newburry. The competition this year was also interesting to watch since Canada had two women in the finals, Emille Heymans and Myriam Boileau. Heymans was looking like she might be in medal contention till she mucked up her last dive. So yet again, Canada comes up short. Least we won a gold in gymnastics. Life Comment by martha on Aug 22, 06:22 PM

104. Nutrition Olympic Symposium Athletic, Sport, Recreation Bibliography Project This year, 1996, marks thecentennial celebration of the modern olympic movement. http://nutrition.ucdavis.edu/olympics/

OLYMPIC CENTENNIAL Athletic, Sport, Recreation Bibliography Project A Welcome Message from the Site's compiler is available or you can go directly to the Database A complete Summary of the database contents is also available. The Bibliography Project research team credits can be viewed as well. Welcome from Dr. Louis Grivetti, the project's compiler: This year, 1996, marks the centennial celebration of the modern Olympic movement. In this spirit of celebration we acknowledge and recognize the names and publications of more than 50,000 historical and contemporary scholars, linked by the thread of a united, common interest in athletics, sport, and recreation. Athletics, games, leisure pursuits, physical education, play activities, and sports lie at the junction between the humanities, social sciences, and biological-medical sciences. While athletic activities most likely had their origin in military training, it is difficult in modern times to separate each theme: athletics from games, games from leisure pursuits and physical education, physical education from play, play from recreation, or recreation from sports. During past and present centuries research on human athletics, games, play, recreation, and sports has been conducted by a broad range of scientists, whether dietitians, nutritionists, physiologists, or physicians. Research on these themes also has been conducted by a broad range of scholars representing the humanities and social sciences, whether anthropologists, artists, classicists, dancers, economists, geographers, historians, musicians, psychologists, social theorists, or sociologists.

105. Extreme Ironing - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Extreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport in which people take an ironing boardto a In January 2005, a group of Australian scuba divers snatched the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing

Extreme ironing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Extreme Ironing (or EI ) is an extreme sport in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing Starch irons atop Rivelin Needle near Sheffield England Extreme ironing locations include a mountainside of a difficult climb ; a forest ; in a canoe ; while skiing or snowboarding ; on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a street; even when free-diving , though this possibly defeats the purpose of ironing. The ironing itself has variations: either solo or in a group; ironing in existing formations or freestyle. EI supposedly combines the excitement of an extreme sport with the satisfaction of freshly ironed clothes. Though it seems a parody or hoax, many extreme ironers take their sport quite seriously. The Guardian said of extreme ironing that it carries on a tradition of British eccentricity. Many organised EI events are now sponsored by the household appliance manufacturer Rowenta Contents History Extreme Ironing under water Power Suggestions of Olympic eligiblity ... edit History The sport was started in Leicester East Midlands England by resident Phil Shaw in his back yard. EI, however, is no longer localized to Great Britain. In

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