It wasn’t long after Blake Aldridge and Tom Daley, were out of the diving pool that the recriminations began. Aldridge accused Daley of nerves and under-performance. Questions were asked of Aldridge’s focus, as he called his mother between dives. Insiders spoke of the body language between the British pair, being wrong. But all of this should come as no surprise. In the build up to these Olympics, it was as if Tom Daley had become the Wayne Rooney of diving. The child prodigy, waiting to take the world by storm. His face was frequently highlighted on the big screen during […]

In a few months time. Plymouth’s Tom Daley will be competing in his first Olympic Games. At the age of thirteen, Tom is already European Diving Champion. Clearly this is a talented young sportsman with a bright future ahead of him. And one with an abundance of mental strength. For as well as having to deal with his fathers cancer, he has overcome a psychological problem that troubles both divers, gymnasts and trampolinists. It is known as Lost Move Syndrome. It means that the performer has forgotten how to execute a specific move. Tom describes it in this way: “Two […]