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Great Britain’s Tom Daley on Sunday was spotted knitting in the stands while watching the Olympic women’s diving final. British diver, who won his first Olympic gold in the synchronised 10m platform event last Monday, has called knitting ‘his secret weapon.’
Great Britain’s Tom Daley is having a knit while watching springboard final (Courtesy: Twitter)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Tom Daley was knitting while watching the women’s springboard diving final
- Tom Daley has won gold alongside Matty Lee in men’s synchronized 10-meter platform event
- Daley, 27, said that learning to knit and crochet has helped him through the Tokyo Olympics
Olympic champion Tom Daley on Sunday was spotted knitting in the stands while watching the Olympic women’s diving final.
Daley, who won gold alongside Matty Lee in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform event, was seated in the spectator stands at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Sunday. At one point, cameras panned away from the action to show Daley with knitting needles in hand and a concentrated look on his face.
The British diver, has called knitting “his secret weapon”. Earlier in the week, he showed off “a little cosy” which he had knitted for his gold medal “to stop it getting scratched”. The pouch is emblazoned with the Union Jack on one side and the Japanese flag on the other.
“The one thing that has kept me sane throughout this whole process is my love for knitting and crochet and all things stitching,” he told followers on his Instagram knitting page madewithlovebytomdaley.
A LGBTQ icon
The ever-increasing LGBTQ representation at the Olympics has the potential to change lives, newly minted gold medallist Tom Daley had earlier said that he grew up feeling like “an outsider.”
When the 14-year-old Briton made his Olympic debut in 2008, fewer than 20 of his fellow competitors openly identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. At the 2020 Olympics, that number has grown to more than 160.
After picking up his first-ever Olympic gold, with a stunning upset over China in the men’s 10 metre synchronised platform dive with team mate Matty Lee, the 27-year-old said he and other LGBTQ athletes could improve the lives of kids who feel “frightened and scared and alone.”
“When I was a little boy and felt like an outsider and felt different and felt like I was never going to be anything because who I was wasn’t what society wanted me to be, and to be able to see out LGBT people performing at the Olympic Games is I hope (it) can give young kids hope,” he told reporters.Daley, who picked up bronze medals at the London and Rio Games, married Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Dustin Lance Black in 2017 and welcomed a child in 2018, which he called “the massive turning point” of his career as an athlete.
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