There are not many sports, other than my beloved Chelsea that I really enjoy watching, however I do always make a point of tuning in to watch Diving, Skiing and Figure Skating. A few weeks ago @BGswimming were running a twitter competition to win the chance to see the British Gas Diving Championships 2012 (Selection trials). You had to tweet a message to them with the hashtag #iwoulddiveinto
As it was very hot and sunny at the time (remember then?), I tweeted “#Iwoulddiveinto a swimming pool of Mr Whippy Ice Cream and the diving board would be a Flake!”
I never expected to win, but when I got the tweet to say I had I was over the moon!
Upon the email arriving with the details, I realised that it I was working, and as my business is very new I couldn’t go, however, my husband and son were more than willing to take my place!
The event we had tickets for took place at Ponds Forge in Sheffield on Friday 8th June. As it was such a distance, hubby and son made the sensible decision to take the train. Luckily we have a friends and family railcard which entitles the adult to half price rail fares and the child to a 60% discount.
British Gas Swimming were kind enough to also provide a night at the Sheffield Hilton Hotel as part of the prize too and the boys took great delight in gloating telling me about all the facilities that were on offer and relayed in great detail how they spent some time in the pool and spa facilities.
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| Sheffield Hilton |
The boys got to watch the Mens 10m Synchro final and the Womens 3m Synchro final and they loved every minute but were most excited about seeing this bright young hopeful!
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| Tom Daley Warming up |
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| Ponds Forge |
And so the championships began:
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| Apparently they performed some bizarre rituals before each dive |
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| Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield receive their Gold Medals |
Tom Daley – 10M Individual and 10M Synchronised
Peter Waterfield – 10M Individual and 10M Synchronised
Chris Mears – 3M Individual and 3M synchronised
Nick Robinson-Baker – 3M Synchronised
Jack Laugher – 3M individual
Alicia Blagg – 3M Synchronised
Rebecca Gallantree – 3M Synchronised
Hannah Starling – 3M Individual
Tonia Couch – 10M Synchronised
Sarah Barrow – 10M Synchronised
Stacie Powell – 10M Individual
Monique Gladding – 10M Individual