Swimming-Doha high divers dream of Olympic stage

High Diving - World Aquatics Championships - Old Doha Port, Doha, Qatar - February 15, 2024 Britain's Aidan Heslop in action during the men's 27m round 4 REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

DOHA (Reuters) - A 27-metre platform perched above the Doha Old Port was Aidan Heslop's launchpad for a first high diving world championship title which one day the Briton hopes may be a milestone on the way to an Olympic gold.

Heslop's final dive on Thursday was a thing of vertiginous beauty -- a forward launch, four somersaults and three-and-a-half twists pike rated the toughest in the business.