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Published:
August 4th, 2008
Olympic diver joins Mayor at official shop opening in Burnham
A
former Olympic diver joined Burnham-On-Sea's Mayor in officially
opening a new shop in the town on Monday afternoon (August 4th).
Tony
Ally, three-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion and fitness
coach for the British diving squad, opened The Hearing Room in
Victoria Street alongside Mayor Peter Clayton and the new shop's
staff.
 Tony,
who shot to fame in 1999 by becoming the first British diver ever
to win a European Championship Gold medal, suffers from a hearing
ailment and explained how his life has been transformed by the
use of hearing aids.
"I
hear very little without them and certainly could not have been
so successful in my sporting career. The technology has gone from
strength to strength in recent years and has been a real life-saver
for me," he told Burnham-On-Sea.com.
Tony
competed in three Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and
Athens 2004 and has recently been mentoring and coaching diving
hopefuls for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which starts later this
week.
Our
photo shows Olympic diver Tony Ally (far right) with Peter Clayton
(Burnham Mayor), Clive Williams (Hearing Room company director),
Rob Iles (branch manager), Emma Poole (branch co-ordinator), Charlotte
Taylor (company marketing assistant), Steve Bryant (company marketing
assistant) and Debbie Iles (wife of the branch manager).
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