Rules & Taking Part
Rules in brief
If a diver performs a dive other than the one announced, he or she gets no points.
A dive performed partially in the wrong position receives no more than 4.5 points from each judge.
One or two points will be deducted if a diver lifts his or her feet off the board before take-off from a standing dive.
Divers who tie for eighteenth place in the preliminary round or twelfth place in the semi-finals, both advance to the final.
Taking Part
 About 130 divers are scheduled to compete in Sydney, with no more than two divers per nation allowed in each of the eight events. There are A and B qualifying standards, which could be achieved at the 1999 or 2000 diving World Cups, or at continental championships, national Olympic trials and certain grand prix events. Britain has already selected Tony Ali, Leon Taylor and Peter Waterfield, the latter pair, a synchronised team that qualified by finishing third at the 2000 diving World Cup in Sydney this year. Australia, as host, gets an automatic entry.
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