TOKYO: China’s unrelenting domination of Olympic diving has rivals in Tokyo wondering not just how they can beat them, but also whether the country’s approach is desirable or even healthy.
China have more or less cleaned up in Olympic diving over the last 30 years and even though their hopes of winning all eight golds at the Tokyo Games have gone, they can still match the seven from Rio in 2016.
So far at the pandemic-delayed Games they have taken three out of four diving titles, with Britain springing a surprise by grabbing the other.
Chinese divers competing in the Japanese capital have consistently talked about the hard work they put in and the support from the country’s sports authorities, without…
