Lifeguard Operations: Summary of Practices at the Athens 2004 Olympics

Abstract

The article discusses the impact of an accident on each host country for the Olympic Games, in which an athlete cut his head after diving from a 3-meter springboard in September 1988 in Seoul, Korea. The lessons learned from the incident were applied by each host country to organize better facilities and safer games. Sports facilities, particularly the aquatic facilities and the lifeguards who had to supervise the swimming pools, also must be ready.