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On 11 August Britain's teenage diving sensation Tom Daley will look to equal Kusuo Kitamura's record of being the youngest male to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.

was 14 when he won the 1500m freestyle at the 1932 Los Angeles Games as a largely teenage Japanese team claimed five of the six swimming titles.

And Daley, who only turned 14 in May, has an outside chance of emulating that achievement in Beijing.

The Plymouth schoolboy became the youngest winner of the British senior men's 10m platform title earlier this year and followed that with

But he faces stiff competition from the host nation in the individual event and has said

However, he has a much better chance of winning a medal in the 10m synchronised competition.

Daley and his partner, Blake Aldridge, are also British champions and broke the British record to win bronze at a World Cup event earlier this year.

You can follow his progress in the lead-up to Beijing on 大象传媒 programme

But will he become the youngest male individual gold medallist in Olympic history? Or will he have to set his sights on success in London in 2012?