Days before taking part in the Paris Olympics, Tom Daley already felt like he had won a gold medal, such was his joy at having his kids at the competition with him.
On Monday, the British diver got his hands on an actual medal, too, winning silver alongside partner Noah Williams in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform. That marked the fourth medal of Daley’s long Olympic career, dating all the way back to the Beijing Games in 2008 when he competed as a fresh-faced 14-year-old. “It’s the happiest I’ve been in diving in all these years because diving wasn’t necessarily my top priority,” he told reporters.
It looked like Daley’s diving days would be behind him when he stepped away from the sport after the Tokyo Olympics, and just 15 months ago, he was enjoying his new life in Los Angeles with his husband, Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black, and their two children, Robbie and Phoenix. An injury to Matty Lee, Daley’s gold medal partner in Tokyo, created the opportunity to partner with Williams, but even then their training time was limited, with Daley living in LA and Williams in London.
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