July 14, 2021

Here is What Happened at the Natatorium: Olympic Diving Tea & Tragedy

Here is What Happened at the Natatorium: Olympic Diving Tea & Tragedy

This week, Mandi is willing and even ready to fight a chicken to the death, divers attempt the "Dive of Death" with mixed results, a diver finds himself on both ends of drunk driving disasters, someone fails to read the room on a scale never seen before on this podcast, Brianne's mom spills the Olympic tea, and in Melanie's absence we fail to make one single dick joke about the name Steele Johnson.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
theoretical animal murder in the context of a would-you-rather, alcoholic parent, drunk driving accident, head trauma, broken bones, internal injuries, death, child death, parental mourning, LGBT discrimination, HIV, coma/hospitalization, prison, amputation, dismemberment, loss of teenage child, drug/alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, torture, murder, attempted violence against children, brief mention of domestic violence, memory loss.

Links:
10 Tragic Athlete Deaths
50 stunning Olympic moments
A double victory with a new twist
AIDS in South Korea: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
AIDS worldwide
Bruce Kimball
COKEY SMITH REGAINS TOP FORM
Diver laments drunken crash
DIVING AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CHAMP KILLED ON A PRACTICE DIVE
The father of a teenager struck and killed by...
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis' heroic diving triumph in Seoul
Greg Louganis' painful moment of diving history at 1988 Olympics
'He Was Short on The Dive All Week'
Hope, bitterness and film are legacies of fatal crash
How Greg Louganis' Olympic Diving Accident Forced a Conversation About AIDS
Indiana Olympian Steele Johnson won't let an injury keep him out of the water
Kimball Wants To 'Start Over,' Won't Discuss Crash, Prison
Leg a reminder of Kimball’s accident
Life’s Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis
Local Olympic hopeful Steele Johnson reveals memory loss from near-tragic accident
Lost Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Aftermath of a Tragedy
LOUGANIS TOLD THE TRUTH - 7 YEARS TOO LATE
Matthew Shepard
Nathan Meade, one of Australia's premier divers, was killed...
Platform and springboard diving positions and groups
Ray brothers
Ryan White
SHE'S DIVING BACK FROM A TRAGEDY
Sincerely, Bruce D. Kimball
SMITH TAKES BIG STEP ON RECOVERY ROAD
Soviet Diver Is Dead A Week After Accident
Steele Johnson
Universiade
Ways HIV Cannot be Spread