London 2012 Diving: Time to take the 'plunge' with Google Doodle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Delhi: The Diving event at the the London Olympics 2012 will kick off on Sunday with the women's synchronised springboard 3m scheduled to be held at the aquatics-centre. Google Doodle too prepares for the event in its trademark fashion.

Earlier, on Saturday, veteran Olympian Peter Waterfield has insisted he will not cramp the style of British diving partner and teenage pin-up Tom Daley at London's Olympic Games -- despite their 13-year age difference.

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The 31-year-old Waterfield, who won a silver in the synchronised 10m platform with Leon Taylor at the 2004 Athens Games, will partner 18-year-old Daley in the same event at the Aquatics Centre on Monday.

Daley's image has graced numerous posters, magazines and advertising campaigns across the nation in the build-up to the Games.

But Waterfield said he was happy for the teenager from Plymouth, south-west England, to hog the limelight.

"He's closer to my son's age than mine," said Waterfield, who is competing at his fourth Olympics.

"I've got an 11-year-old boy and even he tells me to go away sometimes, so I don't want to cramp Tom's style.

"He's a good-looking lad and I am sure he has loads of girls after him, so he doesn't want me standing next to him."

Daley, who won world platform title in Rome three years ago, has said it is "surreal" to be in the same team as Waterfield as Britain look to break China's domination of Olympic diving.

(Agency inputs AFP)