• An Update

I just wanted to update you all on whats going on.

Firstly, the new site will be up hopefully soon. My desktop computer - the computer I have all of my website files on - has a virus currently and I'm still working on removing the virus without having to completely wipe the computer clean of all files. It's a chore but hopefully one I can take care of soon. Once that's finished, I can start working again on the new site.

Secondly, I don't think I'm going to sell this domain after all. I think I'm just going to redirect it over to the new domain once it's up.

Anyway, until the new site is up, you can keep up with Tom on Twitter. His official page is @TomDaley1994. There's also a really good Twitter fan page that you might consider following, @TomDaleyFans.

See you guys again soon... hopefully.

:)

• Change Of Plans

There's been a change of plans for this site. I'm planning to sell this place to a fan site hosting company soon (which means any of you can apply to run it if you'd like), then around February or so I'm going to launch a new site for Tom. This site has just gone so far downhill that I wanted a fresh start. The new site will be located at Tom-Daley.net and will still include TomBoards.com and, of course, a photo gallery. It will also include information on Tom, graphics (icons, blinkies, etc...) and the like as well. The site will be a lot better than it every once since I've taken over. I hope you all look forward to the new site as much as I do. It's going to be great.

Later everyone. :)

EDIT: I just wanted to let you all know that if any of you would like to keep in touch with me in the mean time, I run Josh-Hutcherson.com and Justin-Bieber.org (though it's on a bit of a hiatus) and I'm also working on putting up TaylorLautner.nu, David-Archuleta.net and JakeTAustin.net. If I can get those sites up soon (TL.nu and D-A.net should be up before the end of the year), Tom-Daley.net may get put up sooner than planned! Just be sure to keep an eye out on T-D.net. ;)

• Soon, soon

I promise promise PROMISE that this site will be back soon! I was working on the coding for the new layout when my laptop just decided it wanted to die and not boot into Windows anymore. I've finally been able to get everything off of it (layout and coding included), but, unfortunately for me, I'm going to have to completely wipe out my hard drive and reinstall everything (Windows included) to be able to use it again. Seriously everyone, DO NOT buy a refurbished Dell laptop, they SUCK! I've had mine since February and it's since lost two keys (k and shift), the latch to hold the battery in place broke, and the charger stopped charging after a while, too. But anyway, like I said, I've got the layout and coding and everything on my family's desktop now so I'll resume work on it all soon.

I'm currently in the process of getting my fansite for Justin Bieber up. I know what you're thinking, "Why do you need another fansite, you barely run this one?" right? Well, things are going to change around here and I'll bring on a co-web if absolutely needed to ensure this site stays updated. Promise. But my Justin site will be up within the next two weeks and then I'll finish the coding for the new layout for this site and put it up.

Also, I want to apologize for the downtime recently. There have been changes within the company I have hosting with, but everything has been sorted out now so the site shouldn't be experiencing anymore downtime.

• Results...

If you're waiting to watch this on TV (like me), don't hit "Read More", ok? lol.

• Happy...

Well, today is May 21st so we know what that means... Tom is officially 15 today! He has come SO SO SO far in the past year and I think we all know that he's got an extremely bright future ahead of him. Tom, you should be so proud of yourself for everything you've done in your career. It's amazing, especially considering you're young age and that you've still got so much of your career to go. I think it's safe to say that all of your fans are extremely proud of you and wish you all the best. So go out, have some fun, and just make today special for yourself 'cause you deserve it. Happy Birthday! :)

Today also happens to be special because it's the 1st anniversary of when Tom-Daley.org was opened! This site has come so far since AJ opened it last May and on behalf of myself and him, I just want to say thank you all so much for visiting this site. We both appreciate it so much! :)

Now while I'm here, I just want to apologize for my absence. Things have been pretty crazy for me lately and I've just not had as much time for an online life. Things are slowing down again though and the site will be back full-force very soon. I'm going to be ordering a new layout for the site later today since sadly my graphic skills have kinda been letting me down lately. =/ Hopefully the new layout will be up by the end of the month. I sincerely apologize for the extreme delay on that, I know you all have been waiting a long time for that. But soon though, soon. :) And once it's up, updates will resume and I'll do my best to get the site caught back up.

• Perfectionist Tom Daley will not fall short

""Staying in bed, lying in, going to town," says Tom Daley, as he sits in the balcony, surveying Plymouth's Central Park Pool, packed as it is with frolicking holiday-makers. For Daley, however, his Easter break consists of the following:

"Morning and afternoon in here. Sixty per cent dry land work, in an old squash court round the back. Lots of trampolining, fitness, weights, strength and conditioning.

"Then into the pool, lots of stuff off the lower boards, practising the individual parts of a dive. Plus maybe 12 full dives off the top board per session."

And this Saturday there is the small matter of appearing as Britain's leading representative in the World Series diving competition, to be held in Sheffield.

"Still," he adds, unleashing the megawatt smile that you suspect will, over the next few years, earn him a quid or two, "the thing is when they're all back at school, I'm off to Mexico and America for three weeks. That's the compensation. That's what I tell myself when I'm working."

As is clear from his hectic holiday routine, Tom Daley is far from an ordinary young boy of 14. Last Christmas, for instance, he switched on the decorative lights hereabouts and more than a thousand girls turned up and screamed continuously ("insane," is his father Bob's memory of the occasion; "quite funny" Tom's own take on it).

Which is something that has not happened to any 14-year-old since Donny Osmond was doing the illuminatory honours in the early Seventies.

Indeed at an age when most 14-year-olds are not much more than a maelstrom of competing hormones, Daley is already the best diver in the country, and, after finishing third in a recent international tournament, is now rapidly climbing up the world rankings.

Many – including the lad himself – reckon he has a chance of being at the very top before he is 18. Which, by a happy coincidence, would be in time for London 2012." [Read More]

• Britain's teenage sensation Tom Daley claims a bronze medal in China

"Britain's Tom Daley recorded his highest score in competition as he won bronze at the Diving World Series in Changzhou, China.

The 14-year-old claimed a notable scalp in the 10 metre platform event by pushing Australia’s Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham out of the top places.

He made a score of 540.70, with China's Luxin Zhou winning with a total of 560.00 and his fellow countryman Qiu Bo in second with 542.25.

Daley will now be full of confidence for the Sheffield leg of the series on April 18.

Daley endeared himself to the nation with a brilliant seventh placed finish in the 10m individual platform final at last summer's Beijing Olympics." [Source]

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Huge congrats to Tom!!! :)

• Tom Daley severs link with Blake Aldridge

"Tom Daley, who became the youngest European diving champion last year, will “never dive again” with Blake Aldridge, with whom he fell out in the middle of their synchronised event at the Olympic Games last summer.

British Swimming has long maintained that Aldridge, 26, will be back and aiming to dive alongside Daley, 14, on the way to London 2012. But new, teenage partners have already been identified for the youngest member of the Great Britain team in Beijing.

Daley’s father, Rob, who criticised Aldridge in Beijing after the diver was seen talking on his mobile phone in between dives, said yesterday that he would not allow his son to partner Aldridge in future. “Tom will never dive with Blake again,” he said. “Blake is not a good influence on Tom.”

The teenager is on the World Series circuit, which begins in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, with the British round of the event to be held in Sheffield next month. The tour marks the first time that Daley has worked with Alexei Evangulov, the new British Diving performance director from Russia.

A British Diving source confirmed to The Times last night that Daley, 13 years and ten months when he won the European ten metres platform title in Eindhoven a year ago, is being lined up with new partners “with a view to a time when Blake decides to retire”.

Daley’s father is believed to have expressed concern over reports last month of a nightclub fracas in which Aldridge was left unconscious." [Source]

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Thanks to Benjamin for sending me this article :)

• Tom Daley makes a splash at school

"Olympic diving star Tom Daley made a splash at a girls’ school in Caversham.

The 14-year-old 10m platform European Champion, who became Britain’s youngest Olympian since 1960 in Beijing last summer, treated 24 lucky students from Queen Anne’s School in Henley Road to a money-can’t-buy diving masterclass.

Daley, from Plymouth, was at the school after it won a nationwide competition through school meals provider Sodexo, correctly guessing that he trains for three-and-a-half hours every day.

The Olympian told the Post: “It’s been a real good experience coming here and all the girls here have done extremely well with what someone would do in 10 lessons in just 15 minutes.

“This is the first diving lesson I have taken and normally I’m the one who’s being shouted at by the coach, but I really enjoyed taking the sessions.

“It’s also definitely a plus coming to this school being full of girls.

“It’s nice to pass on the knowledge and show them how I do it, but I think I’ll be a diver for a little bit longer before becoming a coach.”

He added: “It’s great that Sodexo are doing this and putting across the image of healthy eating amongst schools as well as helping me do my diving and teaching other people.”

But with there being only five Olympic standard diving centres in the country, Daley said he reckoned Reading was some way off getting its first Olympic diver.

Student Olivia Paige said she had picked up a few new tricks from the young sportsman.

The 12-year-old said: “Tom was a really good teacher and was really clear about what he wanted us to do and we’ve also learnt about how to have a balanced diet.”

Another pupil, Charlotte Gibbon, 14, who admitted being a bit starstruck, said: “I learnt how to do a forward flip dive and a backward flip dive and I would never have been able to do that before.

“The best bit about the day was getting taught by Tom and meeting him, it was really good.”

Nicki Coombs, deputy head and director of swimming at Queen Anne’s, added: “Sport and encouraging our girls to lead fit, healthy lifestyles is an important part of what we do.

“We were thrilled to win the competition.

“All of our pupils have been excited for weeks and Tom didn’t disappoint. He was a real inspiration and the workshop was a huge success.” [Source]

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Just thought I would let everyone know that I've turned the comments back on. :) Never mind. God I hate spammers.

• Inside Lines: 'Axed' Aldridge ready to splash out with new teen dive partner

"Britain's new Russian diving performance director, Alexei Evangulov, has a pressing matter in his in-tray when he takes up his post tomorrow. He must decide whether to end the partnership of Tom Daley and Blake Aldridge after a declaration by Tom's father, Rob, that the pair are finally out of synch.

Apparently this is a result of Aldridge , who had a famous falling out with the Daleys in Beijing, being beaten up in a Southampton nightclub. Daley Snr says he will not allow Tom, 14, "to be drawn into further controversy", but Aldridge, 26, is still hoping they can resume their twosome. "I've been told nothing about being axed and in any case it is up to the new director," he tells us. "I've been painted as the black sheep again but the attack was unprovoked. All I remember is stepping on to the dancefloor and waking up lying in a pool of blood." Three men have been arrested and will appear in court on assault charges. Aldridge adds: "The main thing is I'm fit and diving again. What happened shouldn't detract from our achievements. If the new man wants results, surely the best way is to keep us together." But if there is to be a parting of the waves, Aldridge says he could be challenging Daley with another schoolboy partner, the 16-year-old Max Brick. "In terms of prodigies he's the next best thing to Tom, and while he's not as consistent, this will come. We'd do well together." [Source]

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