Daley increases Olympic workload

Updated 12.00 Sat Apr 26 2008

Keywords: diving, tom daley, beijing olympics, olympic games, sport

Olympic hopeful Tom Daley has taken advantage of the school holidays to step up his training.

The 13-year-old will be one of the youngest-ever British Olympians when he competes in Beijing later this year.

"My aim for Beijing is to go there, have fun and hopefully do a good performance" - Tom Daley

He usually trains for three hours a day, six days a week, but he has been able to double that workload during the delayed Easter break.

Daley said: "When I'm in Easter holidays, I train six hours a day and have Saturday off but when I'm at school I have to train three hours a day with Saturday off."

Daley is already European champion diving off the 10-metre platform but he is playing down talk of winning an Olympic medal this year.

He said: "My aim for Beijing is to go there, have fun, hopefully do a good performance, and by the time London 2012 comes around I'll have an Olympic experience under my belt and that's where I'm going to go for the medals."