Sporting Life

One April day, six dives, an Olympic chance

National diver Mark Lee on the way to qualifying for the men's 3m Springboard at the 2021 SEA Games in Vietnam. PHOTO: TOMMY LOW/SSA
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The 5154B. The 305B. The 405B.

Ask diver Mark Lee, 26, the challenges that lie before him and he speaks a foreign language. Beauty reduced to code. Ballets might be stylishly named Swan Lake and paintings are evocatively titled The Starry Night yet the most elegant dives are officially referred to through bland numbers.

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