Read moreWhat Happens After You're Done Swimming? GoSwim to Host Zoom Featuring Powerful Voices12 May 2026What Happens After You're Done Swimming? GoSwim to Host Zoom Featuring Powerful Voices Every season, hundreds of swimmers swimmers wrap up their competitive careers at the conclusion of college, high school or some other point of their choosing. Many struggle to find purpose and motivation once they...
Read moreGreg Louganis, Joey Cifelli Guest Star on ABC Game Show29 May 2020Legendary Olympic diver Greg Louganis will star in ABC's game show Holey Moley II: The Sequel alongside "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison as the 13-episode extreme mini-golf competition series returned to ABC on Thursday, May 21. Per ABC, the sophomore season will “showcase self-proclaimed mini-golf l...
Read more2The Pressure Of Success: How Rhiannan Iffland Learned To Thrive At The Top12 August 2019"I was thrown into the deep end," joked Rhiannan Iffland about the beginning of her cliff diving career. The 27 year old from New Castle, Australia dove in her first cliff diving competition in 2016. She came in last place by over one hundred points. Since then, Iffland has competed in 17 Red Bull c...
Read more1Orphan, Advocate, Inspiration, Olympian: The Story of Jordan Windle02 August 2021Orphan, Advocate, Inspiration, Olympian: The Story of Jordan Windle Team USA’s newest diver Jordan Windle landed in Tokyo last Sunday, along with seven other first-time Olympians and two fellow University of Texas Longhorns among the 11-strong group. He will compete in the 10-meter men’s platform ev...
Read moreSwimming World Presents "Lessons with the Legends: Ron O'Brien"05 May 2018Lessons with the Legends: Ron O'Brien Sponsored by Dolfin Swimwear Swimming World continues a series in which top coaches share some of the secrets of their success. The May issue of Swimming World Magazine highlights the many accomplishments of Coach Ron O'Brien. O’Brien was a national champion div...
Read more9Janet Evans, Greg Louganis Will Appear on Wheaties Boxes05 April 2016Wheaties announced today that it will honor three world-class champions – Janet Evans, Greg Louganis and Edwin Moses– with exclusive box covers coming out this May. The iconic swimmer, diver and track star will each have their own boxes in-store as Wheaties looks back to honor these gold medalists w...
Read more6Mission Viejo Nadadores Pool Redesign Plan To Be Questioned By Mayor In Meeting06 July 2015Next year’s planned redesign of the Marguerite Aquatics Complex, the longtime home of the Mission Viejo Nadadores, was all but decided until the team received word that Mission Viejo Mayor Cathy Schlicht had concerns about the process to renovate the pool. According to a post on the Nadadores’ Faceb...
Read moreFort Lauderdale Aquatic Center Celebrates Official Grand Opening; Star-Studded Cast Attends Ribbon Cutting and Dive Challenge29 January 2023Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center Celebrates Official Grand Opening In Style With Ribbon Cutting and Dive Challenge Saturday marked the official Grand Opening of the Ft. Lauderdale Aquatic Center, which showcased an exhibition by Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis diving from the highest tower in the ...
Read more1Women’s Sports Policy Working Group Officially Launched03 February 2021Tuesday marked the launch of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, an association seeking to “protect girls and women’s sports and accommodate transgender athletes.” The six-member working group is led by a pair of Olympic swimmers in Donna de Varona and Nancy Hogshead-Makar, both with long histo...
Read moreGreg Louganis's Olympic Medals Sell For Nearly $431,000 at Auction21 July 2025Three Olympic medals from diving legend Greg Louganis—two golds and one silver—realized $430,865 in RR Auction's Summer 2025 Olympic Memorabilia sale, led by his career-capping gold from the 1988 Seoul Games, which brought in $201,314. Widely considered the greatest diver in Olympic history, Lougan....
Read moreGreg Louganis Collection and Paris 2024 Gold Medal Lead Olympic Memorabilia Sale07 July 2025Greg Louganis Collection and Paris 2024 Gold Medal Lead Olympics Memorabilia Sale Three Olympic winner’s medals from legendary diver Greg Louganis headline RR Auction’s Summer 2025 Olympic Memorabilia Auction, a sale celebrating a decade of Olympic-themed events. The auction features nearly 400 rare...
Read more7Relive Greg Louganis' Diving Triumph at the 1988 Olympic Games22 September 2019Greg Louganis is widely considered as one of the greatest divers in the history of the sport. He won four gold medals and one silver across three Olympic Games (without including the 1980 Olympic boycott). Louganis was the first (and only) male diver to ever win both springboard and platform diving ...
Read more1Greg Louganis Does Ultimate Takeoff in ESPN The Magazine’s “The Body Issue”25 June 2016Greg Louganis will appear in ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue” next month. The 1988 Olympic gold medalist spoke to ESPN about how he was struggling with an HIV diagnosis at the time of his career high point. "HIV taught me that I'm a lot stronger than I ever believed I was," he said. The 56 year old,...
Read moreDiving, Synchro, Water Polo Had Thrilling Gold Medal Moments at 1984 Olympics01 August 2014Each day through August 4, Jeff Commings will take you back 30 years to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, highlighting one of that day’s swimming events that continues to be a benchmark for the current culture of the sport. A full list of medalists from that day’s competition follows at the end of t...
Read moreLenny Is Sullivan Award Finalist07 February 2001Feb. 7. TRIPLE Olympic gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg is among the list of 10 finalists released by the Amateur Athletic Association today for the 71st Annual AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Award. Narrowed from a field of over 30 nominees, the 10 first-round finalists will be reduced to five athlet...
Read moreSwimming World Throwback Thursday Video: Greg Louganis Earns Olympic Gold, Sullivan Award in 198413 March 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, March 13. THIS week's reveal of the nominees for the James E. Sullivan Award, given to the best "amateur" athlete in the United States, includes three aquatic sport athletes. One of them is diver David Boudia, who could join an impressive list of divers that previously won this awa...
Read more15Mission Viejo's Marguerite Aquatics Center Approved For $10 Million In Renovations14 October 2016Yesterday, Thursday, October 13th, the Mission Viejo city council unanimously approved an approximate $10 million in contracts to renovate the Marguerite Aquatics Center. The city council originally approved a motion to fully renovate the facilities in June 2015, which was then presented with a pric...
Read moreGreg Louganis Talks Dealing With Post Olympic Blues in Podcast With Orlando Duque18 February 2021Greg Louganis, one of the greatest divers of all-time if not the greatest, appeared on Orlando Duque's podcast to talk about dealing with the post-Olympic blues. Louganis won four Olympic gold medals in his career, winning the 10m and 3m events in the 1984 and 1988 Games. Listen to the podcast here ...
Read more1Greg Louganis Named Sports Director of Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series03 May 2017The only male to sweep both the 3m and 10m diving events in consecutive Olympic Games (’84 and ’88), Greg Louganis, a regular on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series judging panel up until now, has observed the sport’s progression over the past years: “This series standardized the sport. The heigh...
Read moreSwimming World Presents "A Voice for the Sport: Mission Viejo Coaches Come Home"04 June 2018A Voice for the Sport Thomas Wolfe titled his famous book, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” My guess is that Mark Schubert and Michele Mitchell either did not read the book or never believed in its title. They both have returned to their roots in Mission Viejo, Calif. Schubert returns for his second stint...