Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
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Published 2022-11-21
Edited by Michelle Martin twitter.com/mrsmmartin
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All Comments (21)
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I did ask, and no, I couldn't throw the 360° camera down at the same time!
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"Because I am 41" That hit me like a tonne of bricks.
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Thanks for the chat Tom! It was a pleasure meeting you and have a chance to talk about my sport!
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Legend has it Tom is still up there to this day, wandering the scaffolding and trembling as he clutches the railing. It is said that if you stay still and listen closely, the railing will sway and wobble as you hear "I'm harnessed in, I'm harnessed in, I'm harnessed in."
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It's one thing to drop like a stone, it's another to drop with such grace and do all those flips and turns. Absolutely crazy talent.
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Mad respect for that lady. 41 and diving 20 metres like it's nothing. Absolute mad lad.
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Love how Tom restates facts about how safe he is to himself when he's afraid.
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I've jumped off a 10 meter high dive, just once. Straight down, not trying to do anything but survive. It is an extremely intense experience. I cannot imagine doubling that height and then trying to do something athletic on the way down. This has to be one of the most extreme sports out there. There is absolutely zero room for error.
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The precision of diving from so high and landing so smoothly in water is incredible! I have been dropped on my back in water enough from just a meter enough to be scared of 2 meters for life, let alone 20 meters!
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I could sit down and dangle my legs at that 20m board but my body would physically not allow me to jump down there. What she's doing is nuts, props to her.
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Tom just gave more publicity to Olympic diving than the Canadian Olympic Committee or the sport itself had ever done. Amazing exposé.
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I’ve dived from that exact 5m board. It felt so high, it took me a day to work myself up to it. I never noticed the 20m board.
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The contrast between Tom Scott in support and the diver that is going to jump down without any is hilarious
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It's so nice to see a former Olympic aquatic venue being used, instead of abandoned like in Brazil.
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The most interesting part of this video to me is how small her splash was. I mean that was like 2 feet? I splash bigger when I dive from 10-12 feet. Like the form to go in with such a small splash is crazy, literally a human bullet
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I've done a (very basic) dive off a ten metre board (many years ago). I enjoyed that. I suspect that, forty years later, even getting up to the 20 metre board would cause me palpitations
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Often when i see images and videos of old stadiums from previous Olympics, it's almost always horror stories of empty stadiums left to fall apart from disuse. So seeing one that is not only still fully usable, but accessible to the public, is a breath of fresh air. And the fact that it's from the 90's just makes it even cooler to me.
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I always wanted to try jumping from higher than 10m but then again I already have to push myself hard to jump from there. Huge respect to Lysanne for still doing this at 41!
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This is my dream. I'm cripplingly terrified of heights. My body nearly shuts down from fear. What an experience that must be.
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Great job with the audio Tom - I felt the deep boom from the watery impact.
