Extractions: The Associated Press There was no public pool in his hometown in Puerto Rico, so Mark Ruiz began his diving career as furtively as a spy, stealing out of the house to jump from tree branches and ropes into a river. Sometimes, his mother would sneak him into hotel pools, where at least the water was clear, even if the coast was not. "Sometimes they would turn us back," Lydia Torres said, adding that the lifeguards came to recognize her son. "He used to entertain the tourists. There was a hotel, and they had a 3-meter springboard. Mark would go up and jump he was 3 or 4 years old and the people used to watch. He wasn't into swimming, or trying to cross the pool. He only wanted to jump." Eight years ago, Ruiz and his mother moved to Orlando, Fla., to pursue his diving career, and now, at 21, he represents the best hope for a medal by an American at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. The Olympic trials begin tomorrow in Federal Way, Wash., where Ruiz is favored to win the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform competitions. If he wins a medal in Sydney, he will dedicate it to his mother, whose uncommon sacrifice and perseverance have given personal resonance to the familiar diving term, degree of difficulty. "My whole career is for her," Ruiz said.
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Extractions: Complete list of national titles... Year National Champion Event Imre Lengyel 10-meter Platform Kyle Prandi 10-meter Platform Tyce Routson 10-Meter Platform Jenny Keim 10-Meter Platform Jenny Keim 3-Meter Diving Rio Ramirez Rio Ramirez 1-Meter Diving Bryan Gillooly 3-Meter Diving Rio Ramirez 1-Meter Diving Tyce Routson Chris Mantilla 3-Meter Diving Bryan Gillooly 10-Meter Diving Tyce Routson 10-Meter Diving Jose "Chemi" Gil 1-Meter Diving Dean Panaro Dean Panaro 1-Meter Diving Dean Panaro 1-Meter Diving Wendy Williams 10-Meter Diving Matt Gribble 100-Butterfly Matt Gribble 100-Butterfly Jesse Vassallo 400-Individual Medley Greg Louganis Greg Louganis 1-Meter Diving Bonnie Glasgow 500 Freestyle Janet Freudenstein
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Extractions: By Jesse Monteagudo I f Breaking the Surface was not the best-selling gay book of all time, it was certainly the biggest moneymaker for Fort Lauderdale's Outbooks , which sold over 1600 copies. Outbooks , they knew that they'd accomplished a coup. But even they could not foresee that a mostly-gay crowd of nearly a thousand would descend upon the Hall of Fame to meet Louganis and to (oh joy!) buy a copy of his book. Those who missed Louganis were told that for the diver planned to return to Fort Lauderdale that year as Grand Marshall of the South Florida Pride March. On a national level, Louganis' book topped the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. Previous People Features from the GayToday Archive: GayToday does not endorse related sites. There are several reasons why Breaking the Surface had such a huge success. The first reason was Greg Louganis himself, a bona fide athletic hero and cult superstar. A four-time Olympic gold medallist, Louganis is undoubtedly the greatest diver who ever lived.
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Extractions: Expert: Louganis Too Concerned The Associated Press - Wed, 22 Feb 95 LOS ANGELES (AP) Olympic great Greg Louganis says he worried about spreading his AIDS virus to others during a bloody diving accident in the 1988 Games, but medical experts say it would be virtually impossible to do. "It's laudable that he has that particular concern for the welfare of others, but very fortunately HIV is not transmitted that way," said Dr. Gary Cohan, an internist with Pacific Oaks Medical Group, the nation's largest private AIDS practice. "Even if the pool was not chlorinated and somebody dove in after him, there would be a minimal-to-zero risk that any other athlete would contract HIV through swimming in the same pool that contained Greg's HIV-positive blood." Added Dr. Mark Katz, regional HIV-AIDS physician coordinator for Kaiser Permanente of Southern California: "Clearly there are several things that would make the chance of this causing transmission to be infinitesimal," In addition to the virus-killing potential of chlorine, those factors include dilution of the virus in the water and doctors' contention that "intact skin or mucous membranes are totally effective barriers to the virus," Katz said.
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Extractions: Swimming has been included in every Games. The 1896 events were held in open water in the Bay of Zea near Faliron, whilst the 1900 events were swum with the current in the River Seine. The Butterfly stroke was permissible in Breaststroke events up to and including 1952. Between 1912 and 1928 diving events were decided by ordinals rather by points. 50 Metres Freestyle GOLD SILVER BRONZE
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Extractions: A Complete Guide to Having a Dog in Your Life, From Adoption and Birth Through Sickness and Health His faultless, breathtaking dives at the Olympics won him four gold medals and made him a household name; his life story startled a nation, leaving it concerned for the champion athlete who had seen more than his share of heartache. After the publication of his candid autobiography "Breaking the Surface", Greg Louganis has been mostly out of the limelight, leaving the public wondering about his health and future, and curious about what he has been up to. Since he was a boy, Louganis has found unequalled friendship, comfort and loyalth in his canine companions. Since retiring from diving he has bred and trained dogs including Harlequin Great Danes, a championship Jack Russell terrier, a best-in-breed rhodesian ridgeback, and a best-in-show Pembroke Welsh Corgi. In his new book, "For the Life of Your Dog: A Complete Guide to Having a Dog in Your Life, From Adoption and Birth Through Sickness and Health" readers will find that Louganis has been thriving, doing what he loves best spending time breeding and training dogs.
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Extractions: To pick one athlete as the greatest ever in his or her sport is a good way to start an argument. But maybe not in every sport. Try thinking of anyone who was a better diver than Greg Louganis. As a troubled youth, Greg Louganis used diving as an escape. He found peace at the top of the ladder. Pat McCormick? Like Louganis, she doubled with gold medals in the springboard and the platform in successive Olympics. Klaus Dibiasi? Like Louganis, he won five Olympic medals. But McCormick and Dibiasi were not as dominant as Louganis. Not just in their time. For all-time. The first to amass 700 points in a diving competition under the current scoring system, Louganis is still the only one who has accomplished that in the Olympics. By the time anyone has a chance of matching that feat, 16 years will have passed since he first did it in 1984. That dive also caused him some concern for another reason. At the time, Louganis secretly knew he was HIV-positive. If he had bled into the pool which he did not could Louganis have spread the AIDS virus to another competitor? Although doctors agreed the odds of that happening were minute, Louganis later said, "It must seem irresponsible now, but I hadn't considered the possibility that I could injure myself in that way." By 1994, Louganis had publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, and in 1995, his autobiography "Breaking the Surface" became a best-seller shortly after he told Barbara Walters on national television he was suffering from full-blown AIDS.
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Extractions: "When my cousin told me that I was HIV positive, it's one of those things when you get the information, it's a ringing in your head, and you can't hear anything. A real hollow feeling. And I wasn't sure what I was going to do," says Greg Louganis on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. To pick one athlete as the greatest ever in his or her sport is a good way to start an argument. But maybe not in every sport. Greg Louganis, who is of Samoan descent, won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Try thinking of anyone who was a better diver than Greg Louganis. Pat McCormick? Like Louganis, she doubled with gold medals in the springboard and the platform in successive Olympics. Klaus Dibiasi? Like Louganis, he won five Olympic medals. But McCormick and Dibiasi were not as dominant as Louganis. Not just in their time. For all-time. In 1984, he became the first to register 700 points in platform diving under the current scoring system. Only the 1980 American boycott of the Moscow Games prevented Louganis from piling more gold onto his Olympic resume. Even when he hit his head on the springboard executing a dive in 1988, Louganis still won an Olympic championship.
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