Tom Daley and Noah Williams picked up Team GB’s second diving medal of the Olympics with a silver in the men’s 10m synchronised event
stood poolside at the Paris 2024 Aquatic Centre, still revved and wide-eyed from six rounds of brutally focused 10m synchro diving, fresh from stepping up on to the podium with Noah Williams to take his third Olympic medal, a plastic juice cup landed at his feet.
In the event Daley and Williams were here to do a great deal more than take part, as they reeled off six beautifully focused dives in quick succession – this is an utterly gruelling, blink and you miss it event – to take silver behind the extraordinary Chinese pair Junjie Lian and Hao Yang. Certainly the 10m synchro here was a genuinely fun, multi-layered collection of people. At one end Gary Hunt, the 40-year-old cliff diver, now competing for France via his wife, a delightful human being and all-round cool guy, who first got the hint he would not in fact be diving at his last home Games in London after competing against the prodigious 12-year-old Daley back in 2006.
Otherwise this was just a brilliant competition, as it always seems to be. The Aquatics Centre is one of only two new-build facilities at these Games. It’s a lovely thing, with a swooping wavy timber beamed roof, rising up next to the Saint Denis ring road like a giant alien mushroom. In Paris there was a genuine crackle in the air as the divers walked out, Daley and Williams drawing the loudest cheer. This event is front-loaded. You walk in, strip off, get on the stairs and suddenly you’re in an Olympic final, out there already falling in space.Domonic Bedggood and Rousseau went first for Australia and produced a solid, slightly splashy opener. Canada were slick and peppy.
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