Diving: Space cadets Divers have a saying: dive to the ceiling and the water will come when it's ready. As Mark MacKenzie found out, the water is ready after 1.5 seconds when you leap off a three-metre springboard...

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: January 19, 2003| Author: Mark MacKenzie | Copyright information

After 20 years of top-level diving, Australia's Steve Foley, 45, has seen it all. Following two silver medals at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982, he made two finals at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, just one of three Olympiads in his glittering career. And when he tells his grandchildren of his career-best seventh in LA, he will do so in the knowledge that he was competing against the greatest athlete ever to pour himself into a pair of Speedos, the legendary American Greg Louganis...

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