‘Just happy to be here’: Gold a mere bonus for Keeney
After a challenging few years dealing with mental health issues and injuries, Aussie diver Maddison Keeney is simply happy to be at the Paris Olympics as she gets set to dive for gold on Friday.
After a challenging few years dealing with mental health issues and injuries, Aussie diver Maddison Keeney is simply happy to be at the Paris Olympics as she gets set to dive for gold on Friday.
Australian Maddison Keeney looks set to break up the Chinese stranglehold in the diving pool at Paris with a strong performance in the preliminaries of the three metre springboard.
Kurtis Mathews had 14 months to ditch 14kg and return to the pool with a dream Paris start on the cards. Now he’s in the 3m springboard final at the Olympics.
A 17-year-old Sydney schoolgirl is now the seventh best 10m platform diver in the world as veteran Melissa Wu also closed out her career at the Paris Games.
After injury kept dynamic diving duo Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney apart in Tokyo the pair are back together in Paris. Smith shares her and Keeney’s journey in the latest En Route to Paris podcast.
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