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Road to Rio Games: Santa Cruz diver Rittenhouse derailed by yoga?

STANFORD -- Ariel Rittenhouse's fairytale Olympic ride took a detour a year ago while driving along curvy Highway 17 through the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The U.S. diving champion felt the first twinge of pain in her neck and by the time she reached Stanford it ached so badly coach Oleg Andriyuk sent Rittenhouse home. Thus began a trying episode a year before the Rio Games all because of a yoga session."It's so crazy that I hurt my neck doing yoga when we land on our heads at these heights every single day," Rittenhouse said recently.Once the comeback story of U.