News: Dumais not giving up on dream

Troy Dumais says he's just living in the moment. He won't commit to sticking around for the 2012 London Games. It's hard to see him stopping now, though. Not after he's won two more silver medals at the world championships.

At an age when most of his contemporaries have called it a career, the 29-year-old Dumais keeps pressing on, hurling his body off a diving board in hopes of finally fulfilling that ultimate goal — an Olympic gold.

He's now got four silvers in the world championships, the latest coming Thursday when he was runner-up to Olympic champion He Chong of China in the 3-meter springboard.

That doesn't erase the disappointment of failing to win a medal of any color at the Olympics, where he's 0-for-3. He missed out in Sydney, then Athens, then Beijing. Now, he'll have to hang around until he's 32 if he wants to make another run at gold.

"It doesn't make up for it, but it sets the tone," Dumais said of his performance in Rome, which also included a silver in 3-meter synchro. "You can't make up for something you lost. The only thing you can do is build on it. This is a building process. It's four years if I choose to go four years."

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Video: Olympic Dive Team Exposition

This is a HD video of some divers. Troy dives twice in the video, at 2:50 and 6:12.

News: Dumais Wins Second Silver

Troy Dumais won his second silver medal of the 2009 FINA World Championships on Thursday, placing second to China’s He Chong in the men’s 3-meter finals.

Dumais scored 498.40 points to He’s 505.20. Canada’s Alexandre Despatie took the bronze with 490.30 points. Earlier in the week, Dumais paired with Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif.) for silver in synchronized 3-meter.

Dumais came up short of a medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, where he finished sixth, perhaps setting the tone for this year.

“It’s been a long year. After Beijing, it was tough. You set goals and you come up short. But it’s tough to see dreams go away,” said Dumais, who is competing in his sixth World Championships. “I have to give it to my coach, my teammates and USA Diving. They’ve supported me better than ever this year.”

His 3-meter medal continues the success the U.S. team has had in Rome. With two events still remaining, Team USA has won three silver medals. At the 2007 worlds, the U.S. won one medal -- a bronze on the final day of competition.

Dumais was in fourth place – seven points out of third – after four rounds but then turned in 94.50 points on his reverse 3 1/2 for the highest scoring dive of the fifth round to move to third. He finished with 87.50 points on his reverse twister, good enough to bump him up to second.

“I came here and did my job,” Dumais said. “I had set some goals, and I did it.”

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