Tom Daley, 10-metre Diver, London 2012 Olympic Bronze Medalist

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Champion Ten-Metre Board Diver

As well as the brief introduction here, you’ll find hundreds of photos of Tom Daley, and dozens of photos of Matt Mitcham, ten-metre gold medalist at Beijing in 2008, in these Photo Galleries.

You might also enjoy these webs of hunky men and of Tom Daley. And hundreds of photos of Tom and Matt Mitcham.

 

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black
(born 10th June 1974)
Thomas Robert Daley
Thomas Robert Daley
(born 21st May 1994)

Tom Daley is in a Gay Relationship

See Video Tom’s coming-out video on YouTube. Tom’s boyfriend since spring 2013 is said in the media to be Dustin Lance Black, a top Hollywood screenwriter and gay activist. Lance received an Oscar for Milk, a 2008 film about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.

That right-wing xenophobic homophobic rag, the Daily Mail, seemed to suggest in its online edition (and maybe its printed version too) that Tom was besotted by Lance who was taking advantage of a guy 20 years his junior. For what it’s worth, here’s another tabloid’s [the Metro] profile of Dustin Lance Black. (By the way, the Metro is owned by the same group as the Daily Mail).

Wikipedia has what appear to be balanced entries for both Tom and Lance.

A few days after making that recording Tom was on The Jonathan Ross Show;
see Video Tom’s grilling by Jonathan and later in the show helping Brian Cox make a Video comet also on YouTube.

The two now live together in London.

Engagement

Tom and Lance announced their engagement in The Times in October 2015.

Photo Galleries of Tom Daley and Some Fellow Divers

Beijing, 2008 Olympic Games

Press conference on opening day; Tom with Max Brick in 10m synchronised diving; reception at Buckingham Palace. BBC Sports Personality of 2009.

Sheffield, 2008/9:
Olympic Diving Media Day, 2008; FINA World Series Diving, 2009.

Rome, 2009:
2009 FINA World Championships.

Competitive Diving

Delhi, 2010:
2010 Commonwealth Games.

Singapore 2010:
2010 Youth Olympic Games 3m springboard.

Leeds 2011:
British Gas National Diving Championships.

Eindhoven,
May 2012:
European Diving Championships.

Mostly Chris Mears.

London, 2012 Olympic Games

Mostly Tom Daley
One Year to Go –
10m Diving event –
10m Diving Semifinal –
Tom Daley and others at the London Olympics and other Events –
Synchronized Diving, Pete Waterfield –
Tom celebrates his Bronze medal in the Men’s 10m Platform Diving Final

Mostly Matt Mitcham
(with Tom Daley).

Tom Daley and Other Divers in 2015, principally at the FINA Championships in Kazan, Russia.

Competitive Diving

Adelaide,
October 2012:
19th Fina World Junior Diving Championships.

Adelaide
Beach volleyball
‘Sexy and I know it’.

Spain
Family Holiday.

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black.

Tom Daley posing.

Tom Daley wet stripping.

Glasgow, 2014
Commonwealth Games

Tom Daley won gold (individual 10m platform), silver (synchronized 10m with new diving partner James Denny).

Commercial Ventures

Heat magazine
(& behind the scenes) –
Signing his autobiography, Tom Daley: My Story (Waterstones) –
Sponsored BMW) –
At Madame Tussauds.

Tom Growing Up

Tom Daley’s looking more mature than when we first saw him at Beijing.

A Brief Biography


Thomas Robert “Tom” Daley (born 21st May 1994) is an English diver who specialises in the 10-metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. He started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club. He has made an impact in national and international competitions from age 9.

He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where he was Britain’s youngest competitor, the youngest competitor of any nationality outside the sport of swimming, and the youngest to participate in a final. In the first post-Rome 2009 World Championships edition of the FINA World Diving Rankings for the ten-metre platform, Tom reached a new career best ranking of number one.

He won two gold medals for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in the 10-metre synchro diving (with Max Brick) and the 10-metre Individual Platform competition, and won the bronze medal for Great Britain in the individual competition at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

Tom lived in Plymouth near his mother, Debbie, and two brothers, William and Ben. There’s a much fuller biography of him and his diving achievements in Wikipedia and at his own web site.

Read this interview with Tom from The Guardian.

He attended Plymouth College which awarded him a scholarship. Despite all his diving commitments, he obtained one A and eight A* grades in his GCSEs, and, in 2012, A* in his photography A-level, and an A in his Spanish and Maths A-levels.

Five days after diving his way to an Olympic bronze medal,Tom found himself celebrating a rather different achievement. The 18-year-old Plymouth College student tweeted:
“I got an A in Spanish!
Overall I have A* photography (A2),
A Spanish (A2)
and A Maths (AS) :)
Thanks PlymColleg1 :D”

The school – which also counts the teenage 100-metre gold medal swimmer Ruta Meilutyte among its pupils – replied on Twitter:
“Brilliant, well done. A nice addition to your Olympic bronze medal!”

His father, Robert, died from a brain tumour on 27th May 2011, aged 40, after a long battle with cancer. Tom had always received great support from Bob and said he would dedicate his achievements at the London Olympics to his father.

Tom Daley with his Bronze and Other Medals


Tom at the Press Conference after winning the Bronze Medal in the Mens 10m Platform Final during the Diving on Day 15 (11th August) of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Centre

Coach Andy Banks and Tom pose after winning gold in the 10m platform final at the May 2012 European Diving Championships in Eindhoven

Christmas 2011

Tom Daley Attitude Photo
Tom Daley at FINA 2014 Championships

And more of Tom I’d like to Share with You

Tom Daley
Tom Daley

Tom’s 2016 Calendar – Behind the Scenes

 

And here’s the
January 2016
page

and another

 


Tom Daley and Photoshop

Tom asked rather rashly on Twitter for suggestions as to how he could improve this first photo. Did he get help! This effort [right] with Putin is probably the cleanest one.

Give us this day our Daley bread...

 

and a Health Tip (after That Breakfast)

 


This was from The Guardian: Give us this day our Daley bread, four sausages, bacon and eggs. Tom Daley made history by Instagramming a picture of himself cooking a full English breakfast in a single, compartmentalised pan. People went nuts. The picture of him pointing at bacon was liked more than 47,000 times.

Readers’ comments included:

Tom and Lance in a Photoshoot for Out

Tom Daley and
Gary Lineker

Tom Daley in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida

Rio 2016 Olympic Games Preparations

Tom Daley and fellow team members modelling the new Team GB 2016 Wear for the Rio Olympics (the hunk on the left of the foursome is Tom Mitchell, Rugby captain).


Tom Mitchell

Tom Daley and his new Synchronized Diving Partner, Daniel Goodfellow are putting in Serious Work

Dan Goodfellow was born in Cambridge in 1996 and now dives with Plymouth Diving Club. He is paired with Tom Daley for the 10m synchronised diving event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Watch  Tom Daley and his partner Dan Goodfellow train for Rio .


Tom Daley Finally Reveals Why His Speedos Are So Tiny (And It Involves ‘Flapping’)

According to the  Huffington Post , when Team GB unveiled their new Olympic strip, it’s fair to say that all eyes were on Tom Daley and his teeny, tiny swimming trunks.

Let’s just say there isn’t an awful lot of material involved in the 21-year-old’s semi-indecent, Stella McCartney-designed Rio kit.

But now Tom has finally explained the very (ahem) technical reason why his trunks are so small when he was asked about them during an interview on the ‘Graham Norton Show’.

“They have to be small because everything has to stay in place”, Tom explained.

“If you’re spinning around the last thing you want to do is have something come out of place! And when you hit the water you don’t want things flapping about because it would hurt”.

Tom also revealed his gruelling training regime ahead of this summer’s games.

“I am back to training six hours a day, six days a week”, he says. “It is terrifying that you train for four years just for that one moment.

“You get six dives and if you mess one up it’s all over. It’s a pretty cut-throat thing”.

In a separate interview with the Guardian, the athlete said he was excited about the Olympics in Brazil because he feels he’s now at the top of his game.

“In theory I’m at peak age”, he told the newspaper. “I feel like I’m diving the best I’ve ever dived, consistently, and it’s really exciting moving forward to the Olympic Games because it’s one of those events where anything can happen, it’s outdoors and there are so many factors.

“I feel like I’m in the best place I possibly can be”.