Diving is the sport of plunging into water, usually headfirst, from a platform or springboard. It can be performed with additional gymnastic or acrobatic stunts to score more points over the competition.

The objective of the sport in competition is to perform a series of dives to score more points than the competition. The diver, or pair of divers, with the most points at the end of the competition win.

• Divers compete for themselves
• Divers can perform in pairs for synchronized diving.

Competition diving requires goggles, appropriate swimwear, an elevated springboard or platform, and a large pool of water. Goggles are up to the divers discretion when diving recreationally.

Daley is a British diver, who has won an Olympic gold medal in the 2020 Olympics. In the double world championship in the FINA he won in 2009 when he was fifteen and in 2017. He won the bronze medal in 2016 for synchronized diving, in 2012 for the platform, and 2020 for the platform. He was also a 5-time European champion and a 4-time Commonwealth champion. Daley started diving at the age of seven and by the tie he was nine years old he had already made impact in the national and international competitions.