Greg Louganis

American Olympic springboard and platform diver

Greg Louganis travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.

The record lists Greg Louganis as American Olympic springboard and platform diver.

Greg Louganis was born at San Diego in 1960. His recorded nationality is United States.

Modern exploration moved to the places the body cannot survive unaided: the deep ocean, the upper atmosphere and orbit, reached by engineering as much as by nerve.

He is recorded as platform diver, autobiographer and competitive diver.

The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.

Recognition followed: International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Greg Louganis is still active, and the record of the career is not yet closed.

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