Hot Start: French Diver Eats Shit, Falls Off Diving Board During The Inauguration Ceremony For The Olympic Aquatics Center

First things first, he's okay: 

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That's important to note so we can all crack jokes. This has gotta be nightmare number 1 for an Olympic diver. You're called upon to help open up the aquatic center. You're in front of the President, on TV and all you gotta do is what you train every day for. Just dive. Then one bad step and you're smacking the shit out of your back and falling helplessly into the pool. Think the worst part is you can see him look over to the side of the board as he's bouncing around. You know what's about to happen. He knows what's about to happen. Just gotta brace for inevitable at that point, especially since he's not high up enough to get into a cannonball position. 

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I'm an expert when it comes to swimming and diving, but I do know this. Wouldn't happen in the USA, baby! It's an Olympic year which means it's time to whoop the world's ass in sports. If we were hosting the 2024 Olympics, Michael Phelps would be breaking records to open up an aquatics center. Katie Ledecky would be making swimming look easy. I don't know any of our divers, but they would be executing 10s out of 10s on the board. 

Brutal beat to do it in front of everyone too. Even worse to have the other two guys to do it no problem. Gotta blame the board, only way out here. Sure, he's laughing it off and playing it right in that sense, but like when a guy airballs a shot and starts to wipe his hands like that's the problem, you gotta do the same here. Diving 101.