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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Woods

‘Papa, I want to see you at the Olympics’: Tom Daley on what made him unretire

Tom Daley returned to competitive action in the 10m platform synchro final during last month’s British Diving Cup, part of the Scottish National Diving Championships
Tom Daley returned to competitive action in the 10m platform synchro final during last month’s British Diving Cup, part of the Scottish National Diving Championships. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

It was all over, Tom Daley absolutely insists. Until, quite out of the blue, it wasn’t. “I mean, I’d moved to America,” says the one-time diving prodigy who finally elevated to Olympic champion in Tokyo three years ago. “I was like: ‘That’s it, I’m not doing it.’”

A rigid regime in the cause of making a splash at his base in London had been replaced by what seems an idyll of eternal sunshine in Los Angeles, transplanted there with his screenwriter husband Dustin Lance Black and their first-born Robbie ahead of the welcome arrival of a second son, Phoenix, last March.

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