Blake Aldridge has moved on from platform diving but there is still a chance he can make the 2012 Olympics.

The controversial 28-year-old won the European Cliff Diving Championships in Switzerland for the third time last week and followed it up with second place at the cliff diving high jump event in the Czech Republic last weekend.

Aldridge, former synchronised dive partner of Tom Daly, fell out with the British diving establishment last year after being overlooked for the Commonwealth Games.

And he concedes that and his new found love of cliff diving means it is unlikely he will be on the board in London.

“I was number two in the country, dived a personal best at the nationals and they decided to take numbers four and five to the Commonwealths,” he said.

“What’s the point in training if that was going to carry on and I haven’t competed for Great Britain since.

“I have got another chance to try and get a spot in January, but it is only a chance.

“The hardest thing about cliff diving is actually getting off the top, because you have to time it right.

“You’re not quite certain you are going to be all right and the height you jump from is much higher than you can practise.

“You have to try and judge it in your own mind and trust in your own ability to slow everything down.

“But it is great fun, you see some beautiful places and the training is nowhere near as regimented.”