DIVING : XIONG DIVES FOR CYCLE WITH SPRINGBOARD GOLD.(SPORTS)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 30, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

Three Olympics and three medals for Chinese diving star Xiong Ni, the latest one gold.

Xiong and countryman Yu Zhuocheng pulled away from Americans Mark Lenzi and Scott Donie midway through the springboard finals Monday night. Not even Lenzi's final spectacular dive could catch them.

Xiong won a silver medal in 1988 and a bronze in 1992, both on the 10-meter platform. Yu, in his first Olympics, finished second, and Lenzi, t...

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