1984 Greg Louganis Kongzheng (KZ) Bruce Kimball - Battle it out Platform Diving Olympics
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Greg Louganis, Kongzheng Li (KZ), Bruce Kimball Battle it out in the Platform Diving Competition at the 1984 Mens Platform Diving Prelims and Finals.
Hope I did this era, and divers justice, as placing the dives in the correct order seemed a little problematic lol
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The most beautiful and poetic diver...As my mother used to say, he resembles a Greek god! 🙂
Louganis the greatest diver of all times
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
Do you think he is the best divers of all times or of his times? Present Day Cao Yuan has won 3 Olympic Gold, 3 world Championship gold, 5 world cup gold and many other silver and bronze international medals, on 3m and 10m just like Greg.. But doing dives that are so much harder to do.. Just a thought😀
@Marketoromagnolo
2 жыл бұрын
@@FlipnripDIVING yes he is the greatest, and of course the dives competed today are harder than the ones used in 80's. Comaneci is the greatest gymnast of all times, and her gymnastics skills are not even competed today as they are no more in code of points as too easy!.. and yes he is the greatest, also after all the problems he lived under competing
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
He is definitely a survivor and lived his life exemplary! Loved his diving also! Got to sit by him at a National competition a few years back and was amazed at the way he took care of his body! Still in perfect shape!
@Marketoromagnolo
2 жыл бұрын
@@FlipnripDIVING you met him? Oh my god! He looks sweet guy
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
@@Marketoromagnolo yeah! He is super nice. I’ll have to look for my home video of him diving and post it. It’s from 2009 or something like that. I’ll search this weekend!
Looks like the car accident also did a number on Kimball’s face.
@FlipnripDIVING
8 ай бұрын
you think? I never researched that .. maybe
so many memories watching this as a kid. Do you happen to have atlanta mens 10m? I used to have the preleims semis and finals but my mom recorded over them :'(
@FlipnripDIVING
3 жыл бұрын
Oh noooo!! How sad is that! I guess back in the days you always needed new VHS tapes to save TV shows! :) Sometimes I post entire events and sometimes I split them by diver. All videos are filed in playlists. You might want to check out these 2 playlists. The first one is a 1984 playlist: kzread.info/head/PLY3y43i-C924J-eQmeWjOGf_9lhlX-UsG and the second one is a 1996 diving playlist: kzread.info/head/PLY3y43i-C927MX2uoB-oRnpk6us4ClXZa. . Let me know if those work! I've never gotten feedback on playlists lol.
@bang8622
3 жыл бұрын
@@FlipnripDIVING thanks i have seen them they bring back good memories. Someone has uploaded the mens 3m 96 comp and the womens aswell its on youtube i just cant find any of the 10m :(
@h.r.puffinstuff431
2 жыл бұрын
FLiPnRiP Yay! Thank you for the play lists. It does work, but it doesn't seem to have a way to comment about them. So that's probably why nobody has commented on them. I haven't watched them yet, but I have saved them for later. If there is a problem I will let you know. Thanks again! 😊
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
@@h.r.puffinstuff431 I missed your comment HR Will see what is happening with the comments on playlists... I never even looked at that.
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
@@bang8622 Oh my Bang I am so sorry missed your comment so long ago! You're looking for mens 96 10m right? I have several olympic videos but somehow KZread allowed me to post them way back when but now I can't. They are blocked
Did Louganis hit his head on the top platform in like 1979 or 1980? I know I saw that video a long time ago.
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
He didn't hit his head on the platform that I know of, but his his head on the 3 meter springboard at the 1988 Olympic Games in the prelims. He came back with a few stitches finished the event, made it on to the finals and won the meet. :) Thanks for commenting!
@Grayback1973
2 жыл бұрын
@@FlipnripDIVING Gosh, there was a video of a diver from the top platform that hit his head and basically just belly flopped into the water. This was sometime between 79 and 85. The video was up and I seen it several times,could a swore it was Louganis. Now I'm on a mission to find that video:)
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
@@Grayback1973 I remember hearing about it. There was a russian diver about that time who hit his head on the platform and died. I've never seen the actual video of it though. I think it was a reverse 3.5 or something like that and he kept on getting closer and closer to the platform. In his book Greg talked about him thinking he was going to hit, and he it.. so scary.. If you find it, let me know!
@FlipnripDIVING
2 жыл бұрын
His name was Sergei Chalibashvili
@Grayback1973
2 жыл бұрын
@@FlipnripDIVING If I see the video I will remember if it was the one.
Louganis has so much man juice in him
@arcticgoddess
6 күн бұрын
Is that some kind of gay slur? Sounds like you are in the closet hon. 😉