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Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, expressed his concerns about China's actions after a Chinese destroyer ignored warnings and injured an Australian navy diver with sonar pulses. The incident occurred on November 14 within Japan's exclusive economic zone. The opposition coalition criticized Albanese for prioritizing photo opportunities with President Xi Jinping during his recent visit to China instead of protecting Australia's national interests. The Chinese Foreign Ministry defended their military's actions and called for maintaining positive relations between China and Australia. This incident has strained the relationship between the two countries, which had been improving since Albanese's government came into power. [Extracted from the article]

Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his "strong objections" to China after a Chinese destroyer ignored warnings and injured an Australian navy diver with sonar pulses. The incident occurred on November 14 within Japan's exclusive economic zone. The opposition coalition in Australia has criticized Albanese for prioritizing photo opportunities with President Xi Jinping during his recent visit to China and not protecting Australia's national interests. However, Albanese has emphasized that Australia has made it clear to China that such events should not occur. [Extracted from the article]

This article reports on gay Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China Mitcham received the highest-ever score for a dive, coming from behind to win a gold medal. Mitcham was also the only openly gay winner at the Olympics and his win was important to the international gay community. The article discusses his reaction to his score, spectators, and win, as well as his life and training in Australia. The article also presents information of sponsorship and endorsement deals for Mitcham.

The article profiles He Zi, a 20-year-old Chinese diver. She was born in Nanning in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region of China. She started her diving training at the age of six and at 10, was chosen for the Tsinghua University diving club to train with former national team coach, Yu Fen. Some of her achievements and awards are a gold medal at the National Junior Championships and two silvers in the 3-meter springboard individual and synchro events at the 2006 DOHA Asian Games.

The article focuses on countries involved in the 2009 Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) Diving World Series. Qatar, China, Great Britain, and Mexico are the host countries of the said event, which will showcase the best divers on the planet. The 2009 FINA Diving World Series will start on March 21-22, 2009 in Doha, Qatar.

The article features the diving event of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It highlights Chinese divers' domination of the event with seven out of eight gold awards. Matthew Mitcham of Australia prevented China's complete gold sweep in the diving event by winning the gold in the men's 10m platform. The highlights of the various diving events which include the 3m springboard, 3m springboard synchronised and the 10m synchronised are presented.

Discusses Chinese Olympic diver Tian Lang and his time off following the 2004 Summer Olympics. Description of his removal from the national team by China's National Sports Administration for indulging in a series of commercial activities without permission; Use of his fame to earn money with the help of an agent and a contract with Hong Kong's Emperor Entertainment Group.

An interview with Chinese diver Qiu Bo is presented. According to Qiu, he listens to music, surfs the Internet and talks to his teammates to feel more relaxed during the few days leading to the 14th FINA World Championships. He states that when his teammate Zhou Luxin made an error in the first dive, he felt sorry for him but it did not affect his own performance. He adds that he is proud of winning gold medals in the competitions and being able to represent the Chinese people.

The article reports on the strong performance of the Chinese diving team during the 14th FINA World Championships held in Shanghai, China.

The article presents information on the 2009 Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) Diving Grand Prix to be held in Shenzhen, China on February 13-15, 2009. The competition began in 1995 and has since been considered a showcase for the world's best divers. The Diving Grand Prix has been held in 17 countries and most regularly in Spain and Germany. It is stated that most FINA divers have become world or Olympic champions, including Dmitry Sautin of Russia and Jingjing Guo of China.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of training as a diver for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

The article profiles professional diver Guo Jingling, who is the periodical's choice for the 2007 Woman Athlete of the Year in the diving category. The article explains that Guo, who is 26-years-old, has swept the solo and synchronized gold medals at all four world championships since 2001 and also at the Olympics in 2004. Guo announced that she will retire after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

This article focuses on the Chinese synchronized diving team competing at the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. After their mirror-image dives in the women's three-meter springboard event, Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing, matched in slight build and height, emerged from the water and bowed to the audience--in sync, of course. China quickly established its dominance in the opening days of diving, winning every synchronized event except the men's springboard, in which leaders Peng Bo and Wang Kenan blew their final dive. That mistake enabled the Greek duo of Nikolaos Siranis and Thomas Bimis to win their country's first gold medal of the Games. The two biggest stars, Guo, 22, and men's 10-meter platform gold medalist Tian Liang, 24, still live in dormitories with 6 a.m. reveille and 10 p.m. lights out and nine hours of training in between, but they are well rewarded. In China, Guo and Tian are heroes with endorsement deals from multinational companies.

Relates the observations of nine young Vancouver area divers who travelled to China. Coach Boxi Liang; Comments from some of the members of the Vancouver Aquatic Centre team.

The article presents information on the plans of Chinese female diver Guo Jingjing to retire shortly. National diving team leader Zhou Jihong has confirmed that Guo had submitted her resignation application. Guo's has she set an almost unbeatable record of winning four Olympic gold medals, and five consecutive victories.

The article features new generation of divers who won several competitions in 2008. Australian Matthew Mitcham won the only gold needed by the Chinese for a complete sweep at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Tom Daley won at the British Championships in the 10-meter (m) platform. German Sascha Klein won the second in the men's 10m platform synchronization at the 2008 Olympics.

The article features the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2008 3rd meet held in Moscow, Russia on April 10-13, 2008. The men divers from Russia collected three victories out of four events. Such victory was attributed to Dmitry Sautin, Gleb Galperin, and Yuryi Kunakov. As for the women's events, China finished with a grand slam with Dong Jun, Cao Jingzhen, and Chen Ni in their team.

Discusses Chinese Olympic diver Tian Lang and his time off following the 2004 Summer Olympics. Description of his removal from the national team by China's National Sports Administration for indulging in a series of commercial activities without permission; Use of his fame to earn money with the help of an agent and a contract with Hong Kong's Emperor Entertainment Group.

Reports that Olympic diving champion Tian Liang was removed the Chinese national team in January 2005. Emergence of Tian as the first Chinese Olympic medalist to be expelled from participating in excessive 'commercial activities;' Background information on Tian; Implications on sports.

Reports that Olympic diving champion Fu Mingxia announced in September 1996 her intention to retire. Events that she won during her career; Her plans to attend Qinghua University in China.