Sports Action, 3rd prize
Julian Abram Wainwright
for European Pressphoto Agency
for European Pressphoto Agency
22 August, 2008
Hugo Parisi (Brazil). Participants in the men's 10m diving competition, at the Beijing Olympic Games. The event was won by Matthew Mitcham (Australia), giving Australia its first men's diving gold medal since 1924 and preventing China from sweeping all eight diving golds.
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