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OT Olympics question
This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the
young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Yup. Possible and it has happened. A diver hit the platform with the back
of his head. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Wasn't that Greg Luganis (sp?)?
-- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne "maryd" wrote in message ... Yup. Possible and it has happened. A diver hit the platform with the back of his head. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Yes.... I couldn't remember his name.
-- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Jalynne" wrote in message k.net... Wasn't that Greg Luganis (sp?)? -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne "maryd" wrote in message ... Yup. Possible and it has happened. A diver hit the platform with the back of his head. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard, got stitches and kept going
to win a Gold in Los Angeles. IIRC I agree it is a scarey thought! -- Sugar & Spice Quilts by Linda E http://community.webshots.com/user/frame242 http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frame242/my_photos |
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Yup. Greg Louganis was the one. He trained not far from where I live
Debbi in SO CA "Jalynne" wrote in message k.net... Wasn't that Greg Luganis (sp?)? -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne "maryd" wrote in message ... Yup. Possible and it has happened. A diver hit the platform with the back of his head. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Didn't Greg Louganis (sp?) do that? Or am I remembering him for other
reasons? And I know a diver this Olympics whacked some part of themselves on the board. -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia Queen of Down Under http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html ********************** "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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It sure is possible. I don't know about the US but in Canada they don't
install diving boards with home pools anymore. I guess you can get them as an option but they are not recommended because they are too dangerous. When my son was 8 he used to do those backflips into our pool from the diving board and there was absolutely no way I could stop him... no matter how hard I yelled. We finally sold the house partly just to get away from having a pool so accessible to him. Thank goodness he's gotten wiser in his old age (23) Shirley -- My Quilt Site http://quilts.inspiring-thoughts.com Inspiring Thoughts http://members.tripod.com/inspiring-thoughts/index.html "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... This question from an over-protective great-grandmother. When I see the young people diving off the boards and the platforms, I am always holding my breath for fear that one of them is going to get very seriously injured by hitting the board or platform. Is that possible - or am I just wanting them all to "get down and quit that" needlessly? Polly |
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Couldn't one of you just have lied to me? I didn't really want to know that
it is dangerous. Polly "Shirley Ellen" wrote in message ... It sure is possible. I don't know about the US but in Canada they don't install diving boards with home pools anymore. I guess you can get them as an option but they are not recommended because they are too dangerous. When my son was 8 he used to do those backflips into our pool from the diving board and there was absolutely no way I could stop him... no matter how hard I yelled. We finally sold the house partly just to get away from having a pool so accessible to him. Thank goodness he's gotten wiser in his old age (23) |
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Polly,
Hopefully, this will make you feel better. My kids used to take swim lessons at the local community pool. The diving team would meet at the same time. Never once in the 10 years we were at the pool did we see anything happen to any of the kids. Some of these divers were on the track to becoming Olympic divers. I would sit in fasination watching them. The very best ones also took gymnastics, so they were really limber and well coordinated. Debbi in SO CA "Polly Esther" wrote in message nk.net... Couldn't one of you just have lied to me? I didn't really want to know that it is dangerous. Polly "Shirley Ellen" wrote in message ... It sure is possible. I don't know about the US but in Canada they don't install diving boards with home pools anymore. I guess you can get them as an option but they are not recommended because they are too dangerous. When my son was 8 he used to do those backflips into our pool from the diving board and there was absolutely no way I could stop him... no matter how hard I yelled. We finally sold the house partly just to get away from having a pool so accessible to him. Thank goodness he's gotten wiser in his old age (23) |
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