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Like the swimming events, the womens' diving events were held in the McDonalds swim stadium on the University of Southern California campus, which was built for the Olympic Games but remained afterward as a facility available to the children of the neighborhood. The bleachers provided an even better view of the diving events than the swimming events.
   From a photographic point of view, the diving presented similar challenges to the swimming events. The major difference was that the competitors in diving started in the air, rather than the water, and were therefore closer to the bleachers viewpoint. Also, the water was not churned up as much for the diving events as for the swimming.
   While the difficulty in swimming was capturing the competitors in the water (as opposed to just churned up water with a competitor somewhere in the middle) the problem of capturing a diver in her event was timing. You have no idea of how many pictures I took of feet entering the water!
   Once again, I took most of the photographs of the competitors on the board before beginning their dive to avoid this problem. I did manage to get a few pictures of actual dives however.