Greg Louganis

Gregory Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960) is an American diver of Samoan/Swedish descent, adopted by a Greek-American family. He won back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3 m and 10 m events.

His 1988 Olympic incident and the question of morality

During his 1988 Seoul Olympics competition, he had an accident in one of his jumps in which his head hit the board and was injured and with a bleeding head he fell into the water. At that time he knew he was diagnosed with the HIV virus, but at that time the scientific community didn't know that the HIV virus cannot be transmitted by flow of blood in water. Greg Louganis did not make any attempt whatsoever to stop the other athletes from being exposed to the infected water.

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