The Diving Dude Who Drowned the Competition
Osmar Olvera, a Mexican diver, has achieved remarkable success in the Paris 2024 Olympics, winning both silver and bronze medals. His performance has placed him on track to surpass the legendary Joaquín Capilla's record for most Olympic medals by a Mexican athlete.
With the silver and bronze medals obtained from the springboard by Osmar Olvera in Paris 2024, the diver not only entered a select group of Mexican athletes with more than one medal in the same edition of the Olympic Games, he also placed himself halfway to becoming the biggest winner of medals in the great sporting event, a distinction belonging to the also diver Joaquín Capilla, who between London 1948 and Melbourne 1956, obtained a gold medal, a silver, and two bronze medals.
In the French capital, Olvera Ibarra broke a 40-year drought in which a Mexican had not climbed onto an Olympic podium on more than one occasion and another of almost seven decades in which a diver had not obtained such a distinction since Capilla himself did so on Australian territory, a performance that earned him the closure of a legacy in the diving pits and sport in general that to date remains unsurpassed.
