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(Jeff_L) #1

diving stage wouldn’t appear
for another four years, at the
Highgate Men’s Pond on
Hampstead Heath which
hosted the national Graceful
Diving Championships. In the
early nineteenth century
diving had been more of a
plunge and the aim was to
dive in and go as far as
possible underwater. Then in
the 1890s Swedish and
German gymnasts developed
it into an art form until a dive

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