Diving

There aren’t many divers in the world more versatile than Great Britain’s Dan Goodfellow.
At just 23-years-old he is already something of a veteran on the international circuit, having an Olympic medal on the platform and a world medal on the springboard.
Most divers specialise in one of the variations

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Versatile Dan Goodfellow: "Diving is 90 percent mental"

Jack Laugher has managed to achieve something very few others have in diving.
In a sport so heavily dominated by the brilliance of China, the Brit has not only managed to equal to his Asian counterparts in competition, but often sets the standard.
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, China won

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Diving Olympic champ Jack Laugher: Coping with an obsession for perfection

Jack Laugher is Britain's most successful Olympic diver.
Together with Chris Mears, the Yorkshireman won the country's first Olympic gold medal in diving in the synchro 3m springboard at Rio 2016.
Six days later, Laugher took silver in the individual event behind China's Cao Yuan.
The pair will do battle

Jack Laugher competing at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

Jack Laugher defies niggling injuries to take diving to another level

The incredible stories of 5 Olympians who overcame gruelling illnesses to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

Originals

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Against All Odds - Top 5 athletes who overcame illness

All the Olympic highlights from Great Britain, set to the national anthem.

Rio 2016 | Olympic Games

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National anthem: The best of Great Britain in Rio

Gold for Jack Laugher and Chris Mears (GBR).

Replay

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Men's Synch 3m Springboard - Diving | Rio 2016 Replays

Jack Laugher and Chris Mears win gold for Great Britain in the men's synchronised 3m springboard at Rio 2016.

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Team GB's Laugher and Mears win diving gold

Great Britain's Jack Laugher and Chris Mears win their nations first diving gold at Rio 2016's 3m synchronized springboard diving event.

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Laugher and Mears take gold in 3m springboard diving

Top doubles parters public display of affection at Rio 2016.

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Top doubles partners PDA

Highlights from day 6 at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

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Postcards from Rio - Day 6: road to history

Highlights of the men's synchronized 3m springboard final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre.

Highlights

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Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard Final - Diving | Rio 2016 Highlights

United States of America

Simone

Simone Biles - Olympics.com

Sweden

Armand

Armand Duplantis - Olympics.com

Mikaela

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Ilia

Ilia Malinin - Olympics.com

Chris MEARS

Chris

Quick quiz.
Who was Britain's first-ever Olympic diving champion?
Who was the first British diver to win multiple Olympic diving medals at the same Games?
If you answered 'Tom Daley' to one or both of the above you'd be forgiven, but you'd be wrong.
Jack Laugher is your record breaker,

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10:  (L-R) Gold medalists Jack Laugher and Chris Mears of Great Britain pose during the medal ceremony for the Men's Diving Synchronised 3m Springboard Final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

Jack Laugher and Chris Mears British Olympic diving champions

Jack Laugher's synchronicity with diving partners continues to reap rewards

Winning an Olympic gold medal is a life changing moment.
In an instant an athlete is elevated from competitor to champion; capitulated to great sporting heights and remembered for generations.
But behind every life-changing moment there’s a story – context that explains why that moment is as great as it

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Olympic Channel presents brand new series ‘Wait For It’ – Watch Now

Happy birthday to musician Geri Halliwell – better known as ‘Ginger Spice.’
She, along with Mel C, Emma Bunton, Mel B, and Victoria Beckham, lit up the Olympic Stadium at London 2012 for a much anticipated reunion as part of a spectacular Closing Ceremony.

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Olympic Daily News: 6 August 2020

They can perform on the biggest sporting stages in the world. But how do their music capabilities compare?
After the Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast were lit up by the vocal stylings of long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, it got us thinking.
Which other Olympians can hold a tune?
The

sing-stars

Turn it up! Hanyu's hits, Bolt's beats, and much, much more: When Olympians and music combine...

GB's Olympic champ Chris Mears came close to death and since then he’s lived for his great passions: diving and music.

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Versatile Dan Goodfellow: "Diving is 90 percent mental"

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Jack Laugher defies niggling injuries to take diving to another level

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Versatile Dan Goodfellow: "Diving is 90 percent mental"

Diving Olympic champ Jack Laugher: Coping with an obsession for perfection

Jack Laugher defies niggling injuries to take diving to another level

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