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Excited about diving facilities coming to London

Jessica Williams, Diver and London 2012 Games hopeful17 July 2008

Today I visited the Olympic Park site for the start of work on the new London 2012 Aquatics Centre. I’m part of the Crystal Palace Fast Track Team preparing for the London 2012 Games, so I was really excited to see the beginnings of where I hope to be com

At the moment there aren’t any pool facilities for Olympic standard diving in London so I’ve had to travel to Sheffield to do my training. I usually have to get up at 4am so I can’t wait until there are facilities nearby! The London 2012 Diving pool will be the best in the world. It will have a dry diving gym, water harnesses and a bubble machine for learning hard dives.

Being a London diver I’m really lucky that I’ll be one of the first divers to practice on the boards when it opens and it’s great to see it start being built.