Olympics.

The 14-year-old sporting prodigy from Plymouth, who will

face the cream of the crop in the diving arena at the Beijing

Olympics next month, gave a demonstration of his skills at an

Olympic Diving Media Day at Pond's Forge International Sports

Centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He will be the youngest

athlete to compete at the worldwide sporting event.

The young sporting star, who has just sat his mock GCSEs, is

now focused on bringing home a medal from the Games, despite

admitting in a recent interview that he would be more likely to

bring home the glittering gold medal at the London Olympics in

four years' time.

Tom, who trains daily at Plymouth Diving Club, became the

European diving champion in March this year and with that, he

found world fame.

The teenager is completely savvy with the media attention

and performed to his usual high standard yesterday at

Sheffield's Olympic-sized swimming pool.

He joined his diving partner Blake Aldridge, who will also

be competing for Great Britain.

The conscientious sportsman loves diving as it gives him the

same adrenaline rush as a fairground ride.

He said: “You jump off a really high height, you get the

same adrenaline rush as a roller-coaster. You do loop-the-loops

as you would on a roller-coaster.

“Each training session is like going to a theme park for

me.

“Rather than it being a chore, I really enjoy going and

cannot wait to get there.”

Tom will jet off to Beijing later this month to prepare

himself for the biggest competition of his young life.