A betting favourite of mine and I had a punt on this a few weeks ago. Stupidly I put £5 on my selection on
betfair (40's) and since then his odds have tumbled. Anyway, after hearing about the lad on the radio today, I have been on
betfair on had some more on him at 19.5 and 19's.
Anyway - my selection for this year is none other than Tom Daley. Who you might ask?
Quote:
Thirteen-year-old Tom Daley is the new European champion after winning the 10m platform title in Eindhoven in Holland. The second-youngest male Olympian in British history after he qualified for Beijing, Daley produced flawless dives in rounds four and five.
That saw Daley, from Plymouth, awarded four marks of 10 in each round.
His final round dive was less impressive but he had done enough to hold off Germany's Sascha Klein and Francesco Dell'Uomo, of Italy.
Daley finished with a score of 491.95 points, ahead of Klein on 487.60pts and Dell'Uomo on 481.30.
At Beijing Daley has a chance to become Britain's youngest male medallist.
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This lad, bear in mind he's 13 and beating world class athletes 20 years his senior, has the ability to be the sensation of the summer. More specifically, the sensation of the Olympic games and we all know how much the press bigs up our Olympic lads and lasses.
4 years to London 2012, come the summer the Olympics and this lad will be all over the papers. Get in there while you can!
Dont worry, I will move this to "other sports" afterwards but thought it deserved to be in Talk Sports at the moment because its quite topical.