EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES Preventing the Manipulation of Competitions What is competition manipulation? Competition manipulation is the act of intentionally altering the course of a match or competition to ensure that a specific event occurs. It can take many different...
DIVING ARTICLES Coaching legend: Jane Figueiredo (ZIM) Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, Olympic champion diver, FINA Aquatics World Magazine Correspondent (RUS) She is well-known in Great Britain as Tom Daley’s coach, having guided the platform maestro to Olympic bronze in 2016...
DIVING ARTICLES I have a young girl inside my heart Legends coaching legends – diving: Ren Shaofen (CHN) By Zhou XinEditor from Asia, FINA Aquatics World Magazine (CHN) For China’s former diving queen Fu Mingxia, one of the biggest regrets in her career was that she...
DIVING ARTICLES Psychology of Judging DivingBy FINA TDCModule Three: Subconscious Considerations and Being Prepared Subconscious considerations to take into account when judging:Diving has maintained an envied position amongst aesthetic sports for the fairness of its...
DIVING ARTICLES Psychology of Judging DivingBy FINA TDCModule Two: Pressures and Challenges of Judging DivingThe pressure of judging:The difficulties of evaluating diving outlined above become even more relevant in pressure situations. The reality is, nobody comes to...
DIVING ARTICLES Psychology of Judging DivingBy FINA TDCModule One: Judging Sports like Diving:As diving judges or officials, we often speak in detail about our sport from a technical perspective. We frequently discuss the FINA Diving Rules and use statistics and...