Timeline: Months ago, Tom Daley, now 15-years-old, was bullied by his schoolmates because he wore a Speedo at his "day job." Consequently he was forced to leave his public school and attend a private school so as to avoid the school yard distractions. Then last summer he won gold at the FINA World Championships, picked up Kate Moss as a fan, and now he wants to master the worlds toughest dive.
Diving is an extraordinarily difficult task for an adult and more so for boys going through the throes of puberty for they are generally clumsy and/or uncoordinated for their limbs are growing faster than their brains can register or adapt to. I kid you not.
From The Mail Online:
The importance to Daley of mastering the dive is the high scoring potential that goes with it. Divers score points according to the difficulty of their dive and style marks given by seven judges.
The two highest and two lowest marks are discarded, with the remaining three added together and multiplied by the difficulty tariff to give a final score.
Daley, who sat some of his GCSE exams last week in order to free up the summer for competition, said: ‘It’s a big risk doing the dive, but it’s a risk worth taking. If you manage to pull this dive off, as Matthew Mitcham did at the Olympics, then it can be crucial.
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