This season marks the first stop on Canadian soil for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Canada is no stranger to hosting sporting titans, having previously played host to the winter and summer Olympic Games.
For this reason, Canada's world-class Olympic Pool was opened in 1976, and with its three indoor high diving platforms, is still considered an international high diving destination. In fact, if you follow Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series permanent diver and Canadian Molly Carlson on social media, you might recognise the world-famous pool – Molly regularly trains at home in Canada at a purpose-built facility, and it often features in her social media posts as dives from jaw-dropping heights, testing her limits and refining her diving sequences.
Molly Carlson - one Canadian diver in the permanent divers' line-up
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Carslon and fellow Canadian Simone Leathead will be preparing to welcome their fellow World Series divers to their home country in August 2024 and for Carlson, it’s also a career-first to compete in the World Series on local turf. The closest the competition has come to the Canadian border is around 300 miles away, in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA, the location where she picked up her first World Series career victory.
Molly Carlson swoops in Boston, 300 miles away from the Canadian location
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With untested waters awaiting all of the cliff divers in Canada the inaugural win at this new location is for the taking.