Aldridge was selected last month to represent Britain in the men's 10-metre synchronised diving at the Beijing Olympics and he is coming to terms with the interest in his sport generated by Daley's precocity.
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"I've dived for 21 years and all of that has gone unnoticed," Aldridge told Reuters at the Southampton Diving Academy in southern England. "I was a junior world champion at the age of 17 and I struggled to get on the news."
There is, though, no bitterness, in Aldridge's tale.
"I'd be the first person to turn around and say I'm loving it," Aldridge said almost disbelievingly.
"I've had so many problems throughout my career, such as injuries, but I've never given up and it just so happens the fact that I haven't given up suddenly paid off."
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