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Knowing that Tom Finch, a junior champion in the relatively new sport of wakeboarding, had won so many competitions, I was more than a little taken aback to see how slight he was. Wakeboarding, you see, involves being pulled along at high speed behind a power boat, rather like in water skiing, then launching yourself…

• What surprised the writer most on first meeting Tom Finch?
• When Tom started entering competitions, people thought?