Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.
Few Olympic events match the coordination and grace of synchronized diving — but it can also be quite a spectacle when it goes wrong. Thankfully Frenchman Alexis Jandard also saw the funny side when he fell off his springboard Thursday at the inauguration of the Paris Aquatics Centre, one of the venues for this summer’s Games.
If it made people smile a little, so much the better.” He said there was “a little blood, but it’s not serious, it won’t stop me from going to train this afternoon.” Jandard represented France in the men’s 3 meter springboard at Tokyo 2020, which was delayed a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. He is set to do so again this year.
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