Ringing in the Olympics: Greg Louganis

While I wasn’t quite attuned to what was going on around me in 1988, a couple of Seoul moments did provoke twitches in the old antennae, largely due to their making the headlines on the Six O’Clock News (Mum’s perennial revenge for having to sit through the tea-time purgatory of Neighbours the half-hour before).

The first is captured in this stunning photograph, which somehow lends a touch of grace to what can only be described as a bloke tonking his head off a diving board. Forget world records etc.: for a six-year-old raised on a diet of slapstick cartoons, this oft-repeated clip was a source of endless fascination, Looney Tunes incarnate.