Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Easy-to-View Nation Rankings for Wednesday Results

Gymnastics and diving are on the agenda at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro once again on Wednesday with yet more medals on offer for the competing nations.

As usual, the United States has dominated the medals table along with China, and it has thus far been a successful start to the Games for Japan and Russia:

The U.S. has already added to its gold medal haul on Wednesday, with Kristin Armstrong picking up her third successive individual women's road time trial gold in tricky weather conditions.

The veteran cyclist was the oldest in the field:

Russia's Olga Zabelinskaya finished with a silver medal, while road race champion Anna van der Breggen added a bronze medal for the Netherlands.

The same weather conditions that made the cycling difficult saw the day's rowing postponed, per Rio 2016:

There were due to be medal events in the men's and women's quadruple sculls and the women's pair finals prior to the postponement. 

Among the top events to come are the men's individual all-around gymnastics final and the men's three-metre synchronised springboard final.

In the former, Max Whitlock will represent Great Britain's best hopes of a medal, but he'll be competing with Japan's Kohei Uchimura and Germany's Marcel Nguyen, who won gold and silver, respectively, in this event four years ago.

The 23-year-old Whitlock took part in the all-around team event on Monday, as Great Britain finished fourth, recording excellent individual scores on both the floor and the pommel horse. He shared a look at his recuperation following the final:

Whitlock won gold in the individual all-around final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and silver at the world championships in the same year. He stands an excellent chance of finishing on the podium.

As for compatriot Nile Wilson, the reigning European champion on the horizontal bar did not disappoint in his best event, per British Gymnastics:

He's likely to shine in it again on Wednesday, though it may not be enough for him to overcome his team-mate or the likes of Uchimura and Nguyen.

In diving, 2012 gold medallist Qin Kai will be hoping to bring home another top finish for China alongside Cao Yuan, who won the 10-metre synchronised event in London back in 2012.

Russia's silver-medal winning pair from four years ago, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov will also be in contention.

Great Britain's representatives will be Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, who will be going for broke with a unique dive of their own creation—"a forward two-and-a-half somersaults with three twists," per Daniel Schofield of the Telegraph.

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The dive carries a degree of difficulty of 3.9—higher than any other in Wednesday's competition—and Laugher hopes it will "shock the world." As for Mears, he accepts it is a risky move:

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If we had stuck to our usual routine then I believe we could have got a medal, but we wanted more than that. We wanted to be challenging the Chinese and the Russians and to do that we needed to do something different, something better than what they were doing. It is a gamble, yes, but it is a gamble we think will work.

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Should they execute the dive, it could give them a chance of finishing above their illustrious rivals. It will add another exciting element into what should already be a thrilling showdown.