Mexican diver Paola Espinosa, during the 2019 Pan American Games.
Diving is a guarantee of success for Mexico.
In all the Olympic Games, the country has collected 14 medals from the springboard.
Emerging talents have already knocked on the door of the seasoned.
The Mexican Swimming Federation determined that among the 16 athletes of the team will not be Paola Espinosa, winner of two Olympic medals.
Nor will Germán Sánchez, silver winner in Rio 2016, attend.
For the first time, Mexico will compete in the 12 tests of the discipline.
Among those selected are Yahel Castillo, who at 34 will attend his third Olympic Games, and Juan Celaya, his partner in the three-meter springboard event.
Celaya won two golds and one silver at the 2019 Pan American Games, who was signed by the University of Louisiana as a student-athlete.
17-year-old Osmar Olvera will debut in Tokyo on the three-month individual springboard.
There will also be Rommel Pacheco, with three golds in the Pan-American Games (2003 and 2015) and who enlisted in politics with the National Action Party (PAN) by winning a federal deputation of the State of Yucatan.
Juan Celaya and Yahel Castillo, in a competition in London, in 2019.Dominika Zarzycka / NurPhoto via Getty Images
Paola Espinosa was looking to compete in Tokyo on the synchronized three-meter springboard with Melany Hernández.
Both got the place for Mexico in the Gwangju World Cup in 2019 by winning the bronze medal.
The couple, however, lagged behind in the technical control carried out in Mexico.
Espinosa, 34, was looking to close his cycle as an athlete in Tokyo.
In the World Cup it has shone with its eight golds in the different disciplines, five silvers and five bronzes.
Who will attend will be Alejandra Orozco who won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics when she was only 15 years old.
His companion in the grave was Paola Espinosa.
The list of Mexicans is completed by Arantxa Elizabeth Chávez and Aranza Vázquez in the individual three-meter springboard;
Carolina Mendoza and Dolores Hernández in synchronized jump from three meters;
Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agúndez from the 10-meter platform individually and also synchronously;
Iván García and Andrés Villarreal, in the individual 10 meters;
José Diego Balleza and Kevin Berlin from the 10-meter platform in sync.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) canceled the pre-Olympic diving, artistic swimming and open water that were to be held in Japan between April and May.
FINA sent a letter to the national federations in which it stated that the events were canceled due to a precautionary measure against covid-19.
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