Practicing and perfecting a racing dive can be critical in lowering times.
In the clubby Colony Grill Room restaurant, red leather banquettes are arranged under 1920s-style sports murals — skiing, horse racing, diving.
"I have enough going on in the comptroller's race without diving into the politics of another one".
Kidd raced and dived headfirst for the ball, pouncing on it as Indiana's Travis Best did the same.
Better yet, its sealed design lends itself to photography in the rain, yacht races or diving competitions.
For example, the standard NBA contract specifically prohibits boxing, professional wrestling, motorcycling, moped-riding, auto-racing, sky-diving and hang-gliding.
Crocker had led the butterfly race from the dive off the blocks, building a lead to almost a body length just after the turn.
Ainslie, who won gold medals in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, had just crossed the finishing line in second place in the ninth race when he dived into the water, swam over to the boat carrying the television crew covering the event, clambered aboard like a malevolent Milk Tray chocolate action man and remonstrated with the skipper and one of the cameramen.
There was drama before the race as Sun dived into the water before the starter's gun, after apparently hearing a noise in the crowd, while everyone else remained on the blocks.
There was another heated battle on track in Sao Paulo, where Red Bull's Mark Webber won the race, but Hamilton dived back to the pits before he was able to pass Massa and then retired from the race with gearbox failure.
