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Emergency services by The Gravel Loader Dive Site on Saturday morning, where a man was declared dead.

Man dies at popular NSW diving site

The Gravel Loader Dive Site is regarded as shallow and gentle.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo and Carrie Fellner

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Rhiannan Iffland poses for a portrait ahead of the last round of the Red Bull Diving World Championship, in Sydney.

Rhiannan started high diving in the circus. Now she’s an eight-time world champion

Rhiannan Iffland has won eight consecutive cliff diving world championships all while nursing a fear of heights. Here’s how she does it.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series Champion Rhiannan Iffland takes to a practice platform in Sydney before the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series this weekend.
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series Sydney

Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series Champion Rhiannan Iffland takes to a practice platform in Sydney before the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series this weekend.

Seven-time consecutive World Series champion Rhiannan Iffland will compete in this weekend’s Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Sydney.
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‘The enjoyment outweigh’s the fear’

Seven-time consecutive World Series champion Rhiannan Iffland will compete in this weekend’s Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Sydney.

China’s Cao Yuan completed a clean sweep for China across all diving events in Paris.

China have won 46 of the 56 gold medals in Olympic diving this century. Here’s why

Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau says their system enables them to work and train harder than he can.

  • Chip Le Grand
Britain’s Thomas Daley, left, and Noah Williams celebrate on the podium after winning the silver medal in the men’s synchronised 10m platform diving final.

Fifteen months ago he was lazing on the couch. Now British great Daley has his fifth Olympic medal

He started his Olympics career as a 14-year-old in Beijing, but Tom Daley says winning a silver medal in front of his husband and their two children is among his greatest achievements.

  • Kieran Crichard and Thom Gibbs
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Cassiel Rousseau is putting the finishing touches on his Paris Olympics preparations.

From TV talent shows to 10m platforms, Rousseau is going for Olympic gold (well, sort of)

How does this tattooed, mulleted, free-spirited 23-year-old afraid of heights dive with such precision he stopped China claiming a world titles clean sweep?

  • Emma Kemp
Alysha Koloi.

This diver was shocked when told she’d won a world title. Can she break Australia’s Olympic drought?

Diver Alysha Koloi won a world championships gold medal in February. She is hoping to make history in Paris – and has her sister to thank.

  • Tom Decent
Australian diver Cassiel Rousseau

The Brisbane psychology student focused on Olympic gold

A 23-year-old Griffith University student is making a (small) splash in the world of diving, and will be going for gold at the Paris Games.

  • Josh Bavas
Melissa Wu competes in the women’s 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics.

‘Facing fear’: How SAS thrust Olympian from career turmoil to brink of history

As confronting as parts of her time on SAS Australia were, a four-time Olympian has been rejuvenated as she begins to chart her path to history in Brisbane.

  • Nick Wright

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