Matthew Mitcham News

MATTHEW MITCHAM plans to keep on creating diving history by carving a special place of his own in the annals of the sport.

Matthew Mitcham, the reigning Olympic champion diver with the highest-scoring dive in the sport's history, told an Australian newspaper today that he's terrified of diving in Fort Lauderdale.

Olympic Diving Gold Medalist declares support for Gay Games VIII >> Posted By anneurisym 23 hours, 57 minutes ago in Sports Matthew Mitcham endorses Gay Games motto "Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best" . Matthew Mitcham won the gold medal in men's platform diving at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, scoring the highest marks ever in platform ...

Mitcham's support for gay games - starobserver.com.au >> The Federation of Gay Games has released a video message from Olympic gold medal winner Matthew Mitcham on its website, gaygames.com, encouraging everyone to participate in the Gay Games.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 2. THE Chinese divers dominated the sixth and last meet of the 2009 FINA Diving Grand Prix, organised in Madrid , from May 29-31. Out of the eight events of the competition, the athletes from China conquered the gold in seven of them, leaving the title in the men's 10m platform synchro for the Cuban pair Jose Guerra ...

Mandy Moran of Thunder Bay, Ont., and Hailey Casper of Calgary won the bronze medal in the women's three-metre synchro event to conclude the sixth stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit in Madrid, Spain on Sunday.

PURPLE with embarrassment while slinking down a catwalk, blushing and laughing and thinking, 'Get me out of here', Libby Trickett was looking for an exit.

Olympic athletes who, like Australian gold medalits Matthew Mitcham, are gay or lesbian will have their own house in Vancouver next winter Next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, will feature something new: a house specifically for gay and lesbian athletes.

MATTHEW MITCHAM will be assessed by a doctor and spend two days in voluntary isolation after flying back to Sydney from Mexico yesterday.

FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon has conceded it is only a matter of time before swine flu is detected in Australia.

Police are urging hunters to "consider others and think safety" as the duck shooting season opens today.

AUSTRALIAN Olympic gold medal diver Matthew Mitcham, returning home early from a trip to Mexico because of swine flu, says he won't go kissing anyone for the next couple of days just to be on the safe side.

NEW Zealand and South Korea said Wednesday they are investigating more suspected cases of swine flu, as hastily arranged measures designed to contain the disease's spread in Asia are put to the test.

Competing in Mexico: Matthew Mitcham at the Beijing Games Audio: Australian divers recalled from Mexico Two Australian divers holed up in Mexico have been ordered home by the New South Wales Institute of Sport over concerns about swine flu.

HONG KONG: New Zealand and South Korea said they are investigating more suspected cases of swine flu, as hastily arranged measures designed to contain the disease's spread in Asia are put to the test.

Officials of this weekend's Canada Cup diving tournament in Montreal are breaking out the hand sanitizers, keeping a doctor on standby and cautioning athletes on methods of disease prevention after the swine flu outbreak created havoc at the diving World Series event last week in Mexico City.

AUSTRALIAN Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham and other elite divers competed before empty stands in the final leg of the Diving Grand Series last Friday and Saturday in Mexico City as fears escalated about the swine flu outbreak.

Eight of the world's top divers will compete in the fourth and final two-day contest in the Diving World Series starting on Friday, media sources said on Thursday.

PLYMOUTH diving sensation Tom Daley recorded a lifetime best performance in the World Series as he claimed silver at Sheffield yesterday.