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The Last Dive at the Olympics 背景知识/background information

 1. Olympics 
    Olympics (http://www.olympic.org), also referred to as the Olympic Games, are a set of international sports games which take place every four years, each time in a different country.

 

 2. The 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korean
    the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea refers to the Olympic Games which took place in Seoul in South Korea in summer 1988. At these games, East met West in the Olympics for the first time since 1976 and the focus was back on the sports people who competed instead of international differences. Drugs used to increase sports ability emerged as a major concern at these games.

 

 
 3. Samoan
    Samoan is a citizen of or native to Samoa, the group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, half way between Hawaii and Sydney. The islands are divided into American Samoa with six islands and about 50 thousand people and Western Samoa with one major island and seven smaller islands with about 150 thousand people. For more information about Samoa and its people, please visit http://www.visitsamoa.ws.

 

 
 4. Ron O'Brien
    Ron O'Brien is a professional American diving coach who helped athletes in training for the Olympics.

 

 
 5. the swimmer—Greg Louganis 
    The swimmer is Greg Louganis who hit his head on the diving platform during the 1988 Olympics in Korea. Louganis was born in California in 1960 and at 16 won a silver medal for his platform dive in the 1976 Olympics. His later triumphs in both platform and springboard dives won him 4 Olympic gold medals, 6 Pan American Games gold medals, 5 world championships and 47 U.S. titles including finest U.S. amateur athlete. He quit all diving after hitting his head at the Korean Olympics because he knew he could infect others with the virus that causes AIDS. Greg's personal website is at http://www.louganis.com.