There are just 2 sports yet to start their program at these Commonwealth Games. One is wrestling – which gets underway tomorrow – and the other, as you may have guessed by the title of this post, is diving.
The battle to top the overall medal table is still alive and England will hope that diving is one sport where they could claw back a few golds on Australia, as they have excellent hopes of a bunch of gold medals. Not least they will be hoping that Jack Laugher has remembered quite how much he loves competing at the Commonwealth Games. He’s competed in six total events over the last two editions and has come away with six medals, five of them gold.
Two countries that will hope to spoil the party for the Ashes nations are Malaysia and Canada, who both have realistic chances of several medals themselves, especially on the women’s side.
Look out as well for Yona Knight-Wisdom of Jamaica, who in 2016 became the first Carribean male diver to ever compete at the Olympics. Should he win a medal, the home nation might try to claim at least a part of it, as he was born in Leeds and has trained with Jack Laugher!
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