He had also been through much private tumult before he came out as one of British sport’s very few openly gay men in 2013. He had felt crushed at each of his three previous Olympics, in-between some happier moments when he won a bronze medal at London 2012 and then again in Rio 2016.īut Daley had also been subjected to more lasting grief when, six days after he turned 17, he lost his father to brain cancer in May 2011. He is not an unpatriotic man but I am pretty sure Daley’s tears were the culmination of him remembering all the hope and disappointment, the despair and joy, he had endured these past 13 years. ![]() Daley and Lee were on the podium as God Save the Queen echoed around a deserted arena.
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