{"id":232991,"date":"2026-04-15T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:32:09","slug":"extreme-high-diving-to-be-showcased-at-american-cup-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232991\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme high diving to be showcased at American Cup in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 For the first time on U.S. soil and water, Olympic-style diving and extreme high diving will be showcased for the American Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The international diving competition is being held Thursday at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe crowd is going to be electric,\u201d Leslie Hasselbach Adams, the high-performance director at USA Diving, said. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like competing in front of your home crowd.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More than 100 athletes from 18 countries are participating, including 15-year-old Beau Amprey, representing Haiti. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News spoke to him on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m like Haiti\u2019s first diver, so they don\u2019t really have any older divers to send, so I\u2019m happy to represent and be there,\u201d Amprey said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great experience; being around all these top divers in the world makes me better myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The events run through Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 For the first time on U.S. soil and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-232991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}