Swimmer Tom Dean is relishing the prospect of the garden party revellers who watched him win Olympic gold in Tokyo on television being able to cheer him on in person at the Commonwealth Games.
The footage of Dean’s family and friends celebrating wildly in the early hours of the morning in his mum’s garden in Maidenhead went viral as he walked away from Japan with two gold medals, an event where spectators were kept away by the Covid-19 pandemic.
