The city of Santo Domingo will be host to the Pan Am Games in 2003. It is possible that a new sport will then be introduced at these games, with the Dominicans getting a head start at developing gold medal proficiency. The List?n Diario points out on the front page of its sports section today how Dominican divers have a year practicing in the dry. The newspaper explains that the Dominican diving team carries out its practices by diving into their empty diver pool at the Olympic Center of the city. They fall on a trampoline. The pool has been under "repair" for more than a year. The divers are described as "parachuters without parachutes." The newspaper columnist Hugo L?pez Morrobel pays tribute to the ingenuity of the athletes who have found a way to somehow keep their training program alive.
