Some of the world’s best divers will take to the springboard at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre in Rio de Janeiro Sunday to try for a gold medal. The 2016 Summer Games represents a showdown between China, which won six gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics, and the United States, which came in second with four medals, including just one gold. Want to know more about the heated sports rivalry? Keep reading for everything you need to know about the splashy world of elite diving.
