Official Site of the Hoosiers · Jul 8, 2021
No Blinking – Capobianco Confident About Olympic Diving Chances
IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Andrew Capobianco could have blinked. He could have frozen under the national spotlight, and an Olympic dream would have vanished amid sloppy splashes from dives gone bad.
Indiana's junior didn't, of course.
Nerves, pressure, elite competition and stress from a year-long pandemic delay all merged in a perfect Olympic Trials storm last month that would have broken the less resilient.
Not Capobianco.
When it was over, he had qualified for his first Olympics in the upcoming Tokyo Games in two diving events: the 3-meter synchronized springboard (with ex-Hoosier Mike Hixon) and the 3-meter springboard.