The 10 Dive
"You have to shake the tree to strengthen the roots."
Forget the golden boy status, the squeaky clean image, and the nations renewed expectation ahead of 2012. For now just think about that last dive and how he pulled it off, 4 perfect 10s, when all those more experienced souls around him faltered. Matt Mitcham the Olympic champion can’t have seen it coming, but the philosophers among us certainly could.
In June this year Tom Daley moved schools on account of bullying. He has spoken of threats to break his legs amongst those painful memories. He has since moved schools, and is much happier for having done so, but the extent to which the challenges of the months up to June helped him stay strong in the final moments before his last dive are, according to some, not to be under-estimated. The old adage tells us ‘ what doesn’t kill us make us stronger’. The mental strength that Tom showed in delivering the perfect dive when he needed it most tells us a lot about the young man’s character, and it provides further weight to the popular belief that when we suffer we grow stronger, a strength that can help us in all manner of ways down the line.
Now a World Champion Tom is under no illusions as to what lies ahead. He has to now work closely with his coach, Andy Banks, to introduce new dives with a higher degree of difficulty if he to deliver gold at 2012. His current series has a lower degree of difficulty than his rivals, meaning he has to dive nigh-on perfectly and hope that his competitors do not. Daley admitted the prospect of a new dive could be challenging to create and apply himself to. Above all, learning a new dive is intimidating but he insisted that positive thinking and trust in his coach would stand him in good stead. As he faces up to his new challenge he would do well to remember that although he has been shaken hard in life already, he has overcome his challenges, and become the new oak of the UK diving fraternity. For Tom Daley on a diving board there shouldn’t be anything he can’t do.
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By Juan on 22/7/09
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Great dive - only rivalled by Klinsmann in a Spurs shirt c. 1994/5!
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