North Korea's Hyon Ilmyong competes in the final of the men's 10m platform diving event during the 17th Asian Games at the Munhak Aquatics Center in Incheon on October 3, 2014. AFP PHOTO / MANAN VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
DOG ASIDE:
The 7th round of the preliminary dives of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics men’s 10 m platform diving competition starts off with Li Kongzheng of China….who is leading the prelims after 6 dives….performing an inward 3 1/2 somersault in the pike position….which has a degree of difficulty of 3.4…..then comes Japan’s Masashi Nakashima a back 2 1/2 somersault pike with a 2.9 degree of difficulty…..followed by USA Greg Louganis performing an inward 3 1/2 somersault….after which came the dive of KUW Abdulla Abuqrais a reverse dive….followed by Christopher Snode of Great Britain doing a 3 1/2 inward somersault….then Isao Yamagishi of Japan doing an arm-stand double somersault pike….who is followed by USA Bruce Kimball….in 4th place….doing an arm-stand cut through reverse 1 1/2…..which he does beautifully.
