SHENANDOAH - Two years after dominating the 2008 USA Diving Olympic Trials and competing in Beijing, Christina Loukas was fried. [...] two years later, it's a bit jarring to see Loukas back with another team, shoulder to shoulder with girls half her age, chatting at a Mexican restaurant a thousand miles from her native habitat, the friendly confines of the Loukas family bar and restaurant in Chicago's Wrigley Field district. Not only has Loukas, 26, revived her career, qualifying for a second Olympics after moving to Texas to train at the Woodlands Diving Academy, she has found a new team and changed her life. The lifelong Cubs fan might stay in Houston after ending her diving career in London. [...] it's thanks to her renewed attitude, coupled with the instruction of longtime Woodlands coach Kenny Armstrong, that she's headed back to the Olympics not just to compete, but to win. Loukas and Kassidy Cook, a senior at The Woodlands High School, missed by a fraction of a point in qualifying for London in 3-meter springboard synchro, but Loukas finished second to Cassidy Krug in the individual 3-meter event and qualified for London. Since they began working together last year, Armstrong has rebuilt Loukas' technique, changing the way in which she rotates on twisting dives from counterclockwise to clockwise and refining her ability to track her relationship to the water once she lifts off the springboard.
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