My diagram project is about the last dive Purdue graduate David Boudia performed at the London 2012 Olympics three years ago.This dive won him the gold medal in the Men’s 10-meter platform competition against China’s Qui Bo and Great Britain’s Thomas Daley. This win was especially important to the United States because it was the first gold medal and American male has won in the sport of diving since 1992 when Mark Lenzi won the gold in the Men’s 3-meter springboard competition at the Barcelona games.

Boudia performed a back two and a half somersaults two and a half twist as his final dive. He scored a total of 102.6 on the single dive, which brought his final score to 568.65, only 1.8 points above Qui Bo. This was one of the closest finals in Olympic history.

I really enjoyed this project. I picked a topic I was interested in and I want to believe it showed through my work. I spent a lot of time researching and drawing out the positions required by the dive. It was a little difficult at some times to make my drawings look realistic and accurate, but it was a good challenge and made me become more confident with the pen tool. This was by far my favorite project of the course because I was able to do more drawing than we have in the past.