The gold rush begins: Britain’s Rio Olympics medal tally rises quicker than at London 2012 – Telegraph.co.uk

The divers had to battle against steady rain and wind in the open-air diving pool – as well as murky green water because of algae – but Laugher, 21, joked that “we enjoy it in the rain, with the wind and the clouds, it’s English weather isn’t it?”

The best friends, who share a flat in Leeds, pulled off a 3.9 difficulty dive – the highest possible difficulty rating – to overtake the all-conquering Chinese towards the end of the competition.

Joe Clarke is the first “legacy” athlete of London 2012 to win Olympic gold, after spending the last four years training at the whitewater centre built for the 2012 Games.

His inspiration is a signed photograph of Sir Steve Redgrave, on which the rower had written “no stone unturned”.