Alexandre Despatie, originally uploaded by restassured1.

restassured1 has a number of swimming and diving portfolios on Flickr. Here is one image of Alexandre Despatie I have not yet posted on my own.

I hope Speedo Junkie doesn’t mind, but these new pix of Canadian diver Alex Despatie, I think, deserve a reposting, and a wallpaper or two. So here they are again, with a little addition of my own.

One of my favorite blogs, A Cause des Garçons, posted today about the cover story on diver Alexandre Despatie in the Québecois magazine, L’Actualité. (Both publications are in French, so keep Google Translate at hand if you don’t speak the langauge.)

Calling Despatie ‘Enemy Number One of the Chinese [Divers]‘ (‘L’ennemi numéro un des Chinois’), the magazine wonders if the 23-year-old Despatie can stop the powerful Chinese Olympic diving team now that he has recovered from a fractured foot. “I want to win more than others,” he told the magazine recently, while still on crutches at the Montreal FINA diving Grand Prix in May. “I will be probably more concentrated than if I had not had this injury.”

Towleroad also has some good coverage of Despatie and the L’Actualité article.

Photos of Despatie are everywhere on the Internet. If the subject is diving, you can almost guarantee a photo of him will be included. Images of him have become famous, iconographic. Here are a few of my faves from my collection of him.