A Canadian diver is plunging from such stomach-churning heights that a special platform was built for her in Montreal’s Olympic pool.
To reach the platform, Lysanne Richard uses stairs, ladders and then takes a terrifying stroll along a catwalk built into the facility’s roof.
“I'm scared every time but at one point I learned how to be scared and to not let it make me change the way I dive,” she told CTV News. Richard makes extreme high-diving look easy, falling into the water feet-first at 80 kilometres per hour while performing elegant moves for the judges.
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