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Britain’s Olympic Hopefuls: Tom Daley

With the Olympic Games on the way this summer we’ve decided to take a look at the sports stars that have the biggest hopes for winning a gold medal for Great Britain!

Each week leading up to the Olympics we’re going to be looking at a British Olympian and learn about the event they will be competing in this summer in London 2012.

The week we’re looking at…

Tom Daley – Diving

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The sport of diving involves jumping off a 3 metre or 10 metre high diving board and performing a series of acrobatic moves in the air before entering the water with as little splash as possible.

Each diver at the Olympics must complete several dives. Each dive gets given a score by the judges and the diver or diving team with the most points at the end is declared the winner.

Tom Daley is only 18 years old but he is Great Britain’s best diver. He has already competed at an Olympic Games 4 years ago at Beijing when he was only 14.

Although he didn’t manage to get a medal at the last Olympics he is hoping that this year he can win gold!

At London 2012 he will be competing in both the 10 Metre Individual Platform Dive as well as the 10 Metre Synchronised Dive with his team mate Pete Waterfield. After his diving career has finished Tom Daley says he’d love to become a TV presenter.

Check him out in action here:

Click here to find out about some of Britain’s other Olympic hopefuls

12 Comments »

  • katie said:

    dear tom daley good luck i hope you win a lot of medals

  • John-paul said:

    To Chris

    I hope you win more gold medels. GOOD LUCK.
    lOVE jOHN-PAUL.

  • Tom said:

    To Tom I hope you win a gold medal

  • Oliver said:

    To Tom
    I hope you win lots of gold medals. Please try your best.
    from
    Oliver

  • Jake said:

    TO Tom I hope you win a medal best of luck

  • Arthur said:

    To Tom
    I hope you win more medals in London.
    from Arthur

  • tyler said:

    to tom
    good luck. I wish you will win more gold medals.
    fom tyler

  • Ethan said:

    To Tom
    I hope you win a medal I wish you good luck
    from Ethan

  • Harry said:

    To Tom
    I wish you will win more gold medals
    fromHarry

  • griff said:

    to tom i hope you win some more gold medls!

  • elliejb said:

    To Tom I hope you love doing diving best of luck
    from ellie

  • Lily Jones said:

    to rebecca your the bestest swimmer in the world.

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