Divers know that once they hit the springboard or platform, one little slip-up can mean disaster. Alexis Jandard found out the hard way this week when he slipped off the springboard Thursday while at ...

Ouch: A slip off the 3-meter springboard ended painfully for German diver Conny Schmalfuss. Schmalfuss was trying a reverse 2 1/2 somersault in Wednesday’s preliminaries when her feet slipped off the ...

The platform used by men and women at the Olympics is a flat, rigid, non-slip surface elevated 10 meters (roughly 32 feet, 9 1/2 inches) above the water. The height is comparable to that of a ...