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Gabriela Agúndez at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Diving competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Pat McCormick in midair
Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Watch: A forward dive
Watch: A back dive
Watch: A reverse somersault dive
Watch: An inward somersault dive
Watch: An armstand somersault dive
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Quan Hongchan
Quan Hongchan
Chinese diver
Wu Minxia
Wu Minxia
Chinese diver
Shi Tingmao poses with a gold medal for the women's 3-meter springboard event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Shi Tingmao
Chinese diver
Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Guo Jingjing
Chinese diver
Pat McCormick in midair
Pat McCormick
American diver
Diver Sammy Lee is presented with a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics in London
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American diver
Aileen Riggin, 1922.
Aileen Riggin
American swimmer and diver
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis
American diver
Olympic gold medalist Victoria Draves
Victoria Draves
American diver
Pete Desjardins (left) and Johnny Weissmuller returning to the United States after the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam
Pete Desjardins
American diver
Fu Mingxia
Fu Mingxia
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Champion diver Georgia Coleman (center) at the 1932 Olympic Games
Georgia Coleman
American diver
Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi
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Olympic diving champion Phil Boggs
Phil Boggs
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