OK we’ll admit, this video has been making its way around the Interwebz for a few days now, but the IOC has brought out the big guns and ability to watch footage of the back splash heard ’round the world has become dangerously low. You’d be wise to watch German diver Stephan Feck’s epic fail before the IOC is able to completely round-up the video-at-large.

Poor Wu Minxia. The triumph of the Chinese diver’s gold medal win in the 3m springboard was met with unfortunate tragedy as she learned shortly after her victory that both of her grandparents had died. This was not tragic coincidence — this happened a few years ago and was purposely withheld from Wu as to not deter her quest to win Olympic gold. Read more after the jump.

Have you watched any diving at the 2012 London Olympics? If you have, I’m sure your first thoughts were regarding its obvious aesthetic beauty and fluidity. The entire point of the event is to be the most graceful, and the body control shown is truly majestic.

But what you don’t see on TV is their faces in midair. And they are greater than Frosted Flakes.

Soccer’s diving epidemic isn’t going away anytime soon, and the issue is overblown. Don’t stay away from the Beautiful Game because of it. Diving, flopping, embellishing — whatever you want to call it — is understandable, hyperbolized and the players are fine just how they are. And one more thing: it’s American.

Last night’s edition of E:60 focused on people who participate in extreme sports, and routinely cheat death in the process. One of the people featured: a freediver named William Trubridge, who goes hundreds of feet underwater without the aid of oxygen. Why does he do it? Even he seems a little stumped.

What with the NBA season ending, and then a lockout taking effect, you might think the LeBron James hate would slow down for a while. Nonsense! The latest example: a video of LeBron on a high dive…standing…looking…consulting…and doing a whole lot of everything one can do on a diving board except diving.