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Tom Daley - Speedo Malfunction

National Diving Championships in Leeds - June 2011

Tom - looking 'tall'

Tom Diving

Tom - in the pool

Tom Daley - FINA World Championships - Shanghai

Tom Daley - Taking the Sun

Tom Daley - On the Board

Tom Daley - Plymouth Life Centre

Tom Dives in the Aquatics Centre Pool - Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50 metre swimming pools and a 25 metre diving pool, which will be one of the main venues of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the London 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Designed by Pritzker Prizewinning architect Zaha Hadid, the centre is located in the Olympic Park at Stratford in east London.

With its distinctive architecture and curved roof, it will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park.

Tom Dives in the Aquatics Centre Pool - Wednesday, July 27, 2011

London Olympic Aquatics Centre

This is a really weird photo
Two fully dressed adult guys and a 17 year old boy - naked but probably in Speedos ?

Tom Daley - Filming for Adidas

Tom Daley

World Cup 10 Metre Synchronised Platform

After Britain’s Olympic poster boy and his diving partner, Pete Waterfield, finished a disappointing seventh in the World Cup 10 metre synchronised platform event here, British Diving’s defiant performance director, Alexei Evangulov, had more home truths for Daley and his handlers, insisting:

“Maybe now people will trust me because I’m an expert.”

Russia’s former head coach had caused a major stir by suggesting Daley needed to reduce his media commitments and focus more on his training or put his medal hopes at risk.

It prompted the 17 year-old’s management team to deny his claims with some irritation.

But after watching the pair blow any chance of a medal with one terrible dive out of six, and recognising that they were a world away from the brilliance of the victorious Chinese pair, Evangulov, who has evidently been feeling like public enemy No1 after his criticism of the golden boy, said:

“When I said the Chinese train three times harder than Tom, a million people have been saying 'Alexei, you’re a liar’ – but now you can see.

“It reminds me of the situation in Russia with Anna Kournikova. She looked pretty and made a promising start but the media exposure meant she never got to be the best.”

And after qualifying a little haphazardly in sixth place in the morning preliminaries, for a while during an absorbing final it was easy to believe Daley and his experienced 30-year-old partner might do just that as they lay in bronze medal position after four rounds, looking on course to emulate the women’s synchro pairing of Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow 24 hours earlier.

Then came 1½ seconds of calamity.

Attempting their most ambitious and difficult dive, a forward four and half somersault, the pair fouled up spectacularly.

Waterfield’s execution was poor but Daley’s was nightmarish, with the youngster barely having come out of the fourth somersault and was completely crooked as he hit the water.

From third, they plummeted to seventh.

It could only be interpreted as a loss of nerve at the vital time.

Daley shrugged afterwards that

“it was just one dive that we missed and that’s what happens in a sport like diving. That was the difference between winning a medal and not.”

Evangulov disagreed; he felt even without the dismal dive they would still only have been fourth at best.

Daley, unaware of the latest barbs being aimed his way, afterwards defended his training regime and also noted the recent injuries suffered by both him and Waterfield, as he insisted:

“I know that I’ve been putting in all of the hours I can. Unfortunately today wasn’t our day.”

Waterfield, too, felt compelled to rush to his partner’s defence.

“We missed a dive because we’ve had setbacks with injuries. It’s you guys [the media] who are saying it’s all about the media. You keep bringing it up.”

Except it was Evangulov who brought up the subject again -

Tom Daley - Relaxed

Tom Daley - Olympian

Tom Daley - with Towel

Tom Daley

Tom Daley - with Towel

Tom Daley - Emerging

Tom Daley - Olympian

Tom Daley - Dubai

Tom Daley - In the Pool

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The New - Muscular Tom Daley

TOM DALEY - BRONZE MEDALIST

Tom Daley managed to win an Olympic Bronze Medal in the 10 Meter Platform Diving at the Aquatic Centre in London - 11th August 2012

Before the contest Tom said he would probably only win Bronze - and he was right !

Now is that really the attitude to go for when competing in an Olympic event - but then I suppose he wanted to let his fans down gently.

So why didn't Tom win Gold ?

To answer that, of course, if you want to be honest, you have to risk the police breaking down your front door - but we'll take the risk.

There are undoubtedly at least 5 reasons for Tom's failure to win the Gold medal that he should have won.

1 - He has experienced a growth spurt recently. This affects the brain's ability to judge accurately where it is in space, because the body's centre of gravity has altered. This may have been exacerbated by his recent weight loss.

2 - Poor coaching. The poor showing in both synchro and solo events point to the fact that there is a deficiency in the coaching regime.

3 - Tom's underestimation of the Chinese divers - suggesting that they were 'robots' and would 'break under pressure' - resulting in him not training sufficiently rigorously.

4 - The failure of David Sparkes and Alexei Evangulov to bring Tom into line early enough when he was obviously spending too much time on non-diving commitments, which were being organised by Jamie Cunningham of Professional Sports Group.

5 - The initial contractual commitment to Professional Sports Group made by Tom's parents.

Jamie Cunningham has a lot to answer for in taking Tom's eye 'off the ball' in the run up to the Olympic Games.

Tom may have ended up with plenty of gold in the bank - thanks to Jamie - but he failed to get gold round his neck.

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