Milo French is ready to make a splash in 2023

Milo French is determined to finally banish his injury demons by making a significant splash during a bumper 2023 of diving. The Verwood athlete has endured a whole host of setbacks to slightly dampen the excitement which came from his 2019 triumph at the CAMO International in Montreal.

Ad But, after a gruelling period of hard work in the gym ahead of the British Senior Championships at the start of next year, French is confident he is back on track. DivingAnti-LGBTIQ+ countries face potential ban from staging Commonwealth Games22/07/2022 AT 12:09 The 17-year-old, who is a member of Aldi's Rising Stars programme, an initiative that supports 20 young athletes by providing a financial award to help with training and competition costs, while also delivering personal development opportunities to many athletes through workshop sessions, said: «Hopefully moving forward I'll be getting back into training, because it's back in season now after summer.

»I'll hopefully just get training done, get my harder dives done so I'm more confident coming into that competition and can qualify for some bigger competitions after that." The British Championships could allow French to build on the three podium finishes he has achieved at the Junior Elite Championships. Two second places in 2019 in the Boys B platform and 3m respectively were followed up by a top three place in the 1m springboard in October last year.

The south coast star also secured a fourth-place result in the European Junior Championships three years ago. French has his sights set on representing Team GB at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris but revealed he is keen to pursue opportunities abroad should that plan fail to come to fruition.