U.S. announced diving team roster to Beijing Olympics

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. diving team was completed with eight more members nominated at a selection camp, said a news report on Tuesday. According to the USA Today, the USA Diving concluded it 12-person roster on Monday at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Among the eight members selected at the camp, there are two 15-year-olds, the youngest members of the squad, Haley Ishimatsu in 10 meters and synchronized 10 meters and Mary Beth Dunnichay insynchronized 10 meters. The other four athletes won their spots in the team trials. The USA Diving did not pocket a medal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, but has qualified in all four synchronized diving events and the four individual events for the first time since 1996, according to the... [read full story]