Tom Daley knits Team GB-style tea-cosy holder to stop Tokyo 2020 gold medal from getting scratched after diving triumph
TOM DALEY has found a novel way to prevent his gold medal from getting scratched… by knitting his very own tea-cosy holder!
The Team GB diving sensation took home the top prize in the 10m synchronised platform at Tokyo 2020 after a brilliant performance with Matty Lee.
And Daley showed he was also a very capable knitter by showing off a specially-made holder for his Olympic gold.
In an Instagram post, Daley wrote: “Thank you to all my fellow stitchers!
“Learning to knit and crochet has helped me so much through these Olympics.
“And we won GOLD yesterday. I made a little medal case too. Yay!”
Daley was over the moon as he dethroned defending Chinese champions Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen on Team GB’s ‘Magic Monday’.
Daley won bronze medals at both the London and Rio Games.
And he broke down in tears on the podium as he received his first-ever Olympic gold.
Daley has since revealed his Tokyo 2020 dream was almost ended after having secret all-or-nothing surgery just eight weeks before the Games.
And he hopes his success inspires the LGBT community to ‘achieve anything’.
Daley explained: “When I was younger I always felt like the one who was alone and different and didn’t fit in and there was something about me that was always never going to be as good as what society wanted me to be.
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“I hope that any young LGBT person out there can see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you can achieve anything and there is a whole lot of your chosen family out here ready to support you.
“I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion.
“I feel very empowered by that because when I was younger I thought that I was never going to be anything or achieve anything because of who I was and to be an Olympic champion now shows you can achieve anything.”
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