COME BACK. >>> AMERICAN DIVER JORDAN WINDLE COMPETES OVERNIGHT AND HIS STORY IS REALLY WITH THE OLYMPIC'S ARE ALL ABOUT. A CANADIAN, OR RATHER CAMBODIAN DIVER WHO SPENT MUCH OF HIS CHILDHOOD HERE IN THE TRIANGLE WITH HIS ADOPTED FATHER WAS A FORMER MOORESVILLE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBER. BRYAN MIMS SPOKE WITH THE FATHER ABOUT HIS SONS JOURNEY FROM ORPHANAGE TO GLOBAL INSPIRATION. >> YOU KNOW, I KNEW FROM MY TEENAGE YEARS I WANTED TO BE A DAD. >> Reporter: HE KNEW SOMETHING ELSE IN THOSE EARLY YEARS, THAT HE WAS . HE FIGURED A GAME AND COULD NEVER BE A DAD AND THEN A BRAIN TUMOR ROBBED HIM OF HIS MOM. >> AND WHEN MY MOM DIED, THAT I HAD ALREADY, I HAD COME TO GRIPS WITH THOSE DIFFICULT TO BE A FATHER. >> Reporter: UNTIL HE CAME ACROSS A MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT A SINGLE MAN ADOPTING A CHILD FROM CAMBODIA AND IN 2000, HE FOUND HIMSELF IN CAMBODIA HOLDING A MALNOURISHED 18-MONTH- OLD BOY WITH SKIN INFECTIONS, LIES, INTESTINAL WORMS. THAT CHILD WAS NOW HIS SON. >> IT WAS THE MOST OVERWHELMING, EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE WHEN I HELD IN MY ARMS, I PROMISED HIM THAT I WOULD ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE THERE FOR HIM, THAT I WOULD ALWAYS GIVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE BEST HUMAN BEING HE COULD BE AS I PROMISED THAT TO HIM AS AN INFANT. >> Reporter: THE BABY BOY HE NAMED JORDAN SOON BECAME HEALTHY. HE WAS SEVEN AND LIVING IN FORT LAUDERDALE, JORDAN CALLED OR CAUGHT THE EYE OF A LOCAL DIVE TEAM COACH. >> HE TOLD ME TO GET HIM INTO DIVING HE WILL BE A NATIONAL CHAMPION ONE DAY. HE GOES I KNOW HE WILL. >> Reporter: JORDAN SIGNED UP AND IN 2013 HE AND HIS DAD MOVED TO THE TRIANGLE WERE JORDAN TRAINED WITH A DUKE DIVING TEAM. HE SAID A COUPLE OF YEARS ON THE TOWN COUNCIL AND HE NOW LIVES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. HIS SON DID BECOME A DIVING CHAMPION WINNING THE NATIONAL TITLES AND COMPETING IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. >> I LOVE THAT HE SAYS HE DIVES FOR ME. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO GIVE ME THIS AS A GIFT. >> Reporter: NOW 22, HE HAS MADE IT TO THE OLYMPICS COMPETING IN 10 METER PLATFORM DIVING. FOR FATHER AND SON, WHAT A JOURNEY. >>> FROM THE WORST TRAVESTY, AND LOSING A PARENT. >> Reporter: TO HIMSELF BECOME APPARENT. >> I WANT TO BE THE BEST DADDY THAT I CAN BE TO HIM. THAT HAS NOW BECOME AN INSPIRATION TO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. NOTABLY BE TO THOSE IN CAMBODIA. >> I LOOK AT HOW HIS LIFE HAS PLAYED OUT. I AM SO WAITING WITH ANTICIPATION OF THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING EVEN MORE GREAT. >> Reporter: HE MADE A PROMISE TO AN ORPHAN CHILD, A PROMISE KEPT. LOVE GIVEN. GREATNESS ACHIEVED. BRYAN MIMS OF WRAL NEWS. >> THE PAST COUPLE WEEKS OF STORIES WE HAVE HAD. AND WHAT A REMINDER THAT EVERYONE MATTERS. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS SO BEAUTIFUL. LOVE AT THE CENTER OF IT. >> RYAN, WELL DONE, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU. THE LAST FEW MONTHS, JORDAN WINDLE HAD A CAMBODIAN FLAG TATTOOED ON THE INSIDE OF HIS LEFT ARM . YOU CAN SEE IT AS HE DIVES BECAUSE HE SAYS HE WANTS THE PEOPLE OF CAMBODIA TO KNOW THEY ARE ALWAYS IN HIS HEART.