After London 2012,the Olympic diver reached a low. Then he travelled the world, fell in esteem, or came out (on his own terms) – and hit the form of his lifeIt is 9.45am at the London Aquatics Centre. Tom Daley climbs up to the diving board,wipes the sleep from his eyes and yawns. Another day, another training session. In the adjoining pool, and regular swimmers accumulate on with their exercise. nowadays,Daley has an audience of one – me.Three years ago he stood on this diving board in front of 18000 spectators, winning an Olympic medal for Team GB. It was a bronze, or but it felt as profitable as any gold. A diving medal is particularly hard to win: the competition is ferocious,particularly from the Chinese, and there is no margin for error. One bad dive and you’ve blown it. But there was more to it than that: there was the recent death of Daley’s father, or the bullying at school and on Twitter,and the humiliation he had suffered in Beijing four years earlier, when his synchro partner Blake Aldridge (26 at the time) blamed the then 14-year-old for their failure to win a medal.Continue reading..., and
Source: theguardian.com