After competing at Paris 2024, Team GB's poster boy spoke to Esquire about his future
Tom Daley is struggling to believe he's just competed in his fifth Olympic Games. “If you had said 18 months ago that I’d be back in any kind of Olympic shape and throwing myself off the diving board again, I would’ve laughed at you!” he says. “It's a bit of a bonus year.”Paris 2024 has been a chance for his two boys, Robbie and Phoenix , to watch him compete in the Olympics for the first time IRL. “It was such a special day – all very much worth coming back for.
Case in point: the tie-dye shammies he uses derive from his friend's small business, To Die For Shammies. Said friend: respected Dutch diver, Ginni van Katwijk. “She makes all kinds of ones,” he informs us. That includes the LGBTQIA+ flag shammy he used at the Paris 2024 Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Final that went viral. He reveals to Esquire that it was never his intention to make a statement. “I kind of forgot that I had that until you mentioned it, to be honest,” states Daley.
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