Tom Daley: I’ll win Olympic gold for my late dad

The Chinese divers Chen Aisen and Lin Yue were way out in front the whole way with near ideal dives every single time and took home the Gold medal, but we knew before the event this evening that they would definitely be the ones to beat.

And the American duo of David Boudia and Steele Johnson also caught the eye, but with the brilliance of the Chinese, while they were well ahead of the rest, they had to settle for silver.

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They scored a total of 444.45 points. In the lead up to the Olympics 2016 diving events in Rio de Janeiro, Daley has repeatedly said that he is determined to win a gold medal this year.

But a superb corkscrew with four-and-a-half somersaults in their penultimate leap of faith lifted them back into the fight for bronze position. They bonded over box sets of Game of Thrones and Waking the Dead and both had talked in the run up about the connection they had forged in the nine months they had been diving together.

And it is even more jarring to realise that time has compressed to the extent that Daley is now at his third Olympics and it his younger diving partner who is the less experienced of the pair.

“I only had a week off before I went into training for the junior world championships, but in that week I had a taste of what it was like to be a normal 18-year-old, and I really liked it”.

“It’s going to be tough”.

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“That’s really what’s helped me fall back in love with the sport”.

And the London 2012 10-metres platform bronze medallist hopes to pay tribute to his father, Rob Daley, who died in May 2011 after having a brain tumour diagnosed five years earlier.