When it comes to the Olympics, Lindsey Fraser has been an athlete, a coach and has now added judge to her impressive CV following the Tokyo 2020 Games.
The rearranged Tokyo Games marked Lindsey’s seventh Olympic appearance, but her first as a judge.
She coached Peter Waterfield to a silver medal in the 10m Synchro in Athens, but this time she was handing out the scores.
Explaining why she enjoys the judging role, and why others should get involved, Lindsey said: “It’s challenging, but it’s a very, very enjoyable and rewarding experience I think the best way of saying it.
“It’s easier if you’re a coach because you then already know the rules of diving and so on. If you’re moving into it as a parent there’s a lot of learning to be done.
“The nicest thing about diving is, it’s a sport for everyone.
“Within training, boys and girls train together. You don’t have to have a particular body type to be good. If you watch the Olympics you’ll be able to see that there’s a huge variety of different people that can all take part in the sport.
“It’s a very inclusive sport and it’s a very friendly sport. If you’re on poolside and someone does a good dive, everybody on the poolside claps.
“Everybody respects how complicated and how hard it was to achieve that and acknowledges it, and that’s beautiful.
“Everywhere around the world I go, I have the diving family. I could literally travel to any country and I’d have a house I could go and stay in with friends that I know would look after me, whether they be coaches, judges or divers.
“I’m very fortunate in that respect, but I think it is just a great family of people who are all passionate about the same thing.”