{"id":329800,"date":"2018-09-19T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=329800"},"modified":"2018-09-19T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:24:10","slug":"2008-diving-olympians-nick-robinson-baker-and-jevon-tarantino-on-history-of-hall-of-fame-aquatic-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2008-diving-olympians-nick-robinson-baker-and-jevon-tarantino-on-history-of-hall-of-fame-aquatic-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Diving Olympians Nick Robinson-Baker and Jevon Tarantino on History of Hall of Fame – Aquatic Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

2008 Diving Olympians\u00a0Nick Robinson-Baker\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain and\u00a0Jevon Tarantino\u00a0<\/strong>of the United States visited the International Swimming Hall of Fame last week to reminisce on their diving careers and what the Hall of Fame Aquatic Complex means to them.<\/p>\n

Robinson-Baker and Tarantino talked in depth with the International Swimming Hall of Fame Historian\u00a0Bruce Wigo\u00a0<\/strong>about their personal histories with the Fort Lauderdale pool (0:53) and their histories with each other (1:24).<\/p>\n

Robinson-Baker and Tarantino competed in the same event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (1:41), placing seventh and fourth respectively in the 3m synchro event.<\/p>\n

The duo also talked about how big of a deal the pool was to them growing up as kids (2:26) and watching legends like\u00a0Greg Louganis\u00a0<\/strong>compete in the pool. Robinson-Baker also talked about why Fort Lauderdale was such a big tourist attraction to divers (2:52) from not just the United States, but from all over the world, attracting the likes of\u00a0Tom Daley<\/strong>, Fu Mingxia<\/b>,\u00a0Guo Jingjing<\/strong>\u00a0and many other great divers.<\/p>\n

The City of Fort Lauderdale has approved a $27 million renovation<\/a> for the pool and Robinson-Baker talked about what that will mean to the future of diving in the area (4:16).<\/p>\n

Nick Robinson-Baker and Tarantino also decided to throw it back and jump around on the boards. They treated us to a Team USA-Team GB synchro event off the 10m platform (5:53).<\/p>\n