After the two scored an Olympics bronze medal in the 10m platform synchronized diving event on August 8, numerous British newspapers – including the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express – only put Tom and his abs on the cover, snubbing Daniel with the coldest of cold shoulders.
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Dan Goodfellow, who’s 19, has only been training with Daley for a year and the pair didn’t even expect to qualify for Rio.
There could also be an historic medal for Team GB women’s rugby sevens side as they look to become one of the first nations in 108 years to win an Olympic rugby medal.
On the other hand, United States of America achieved silver with David Boudia and Steele Johnson scoring 457.11 and China’s Chen Aisen and Lin Yue bringing glory to their nation by earning a gold medal with a score of 496.98.
There were jubilant scenes as Tom and Dan celebrated their Olympic medal victory – their second and first respectively – and the celebrations continued into the night as Tom’s fiancé, Hollywood film producer Dustin Lance Black, publicly congratulated his husband-to-be on Twitter. Ever since then we’ve won a medal in every competition that we’ve done.
This is Goodfellow’s first Olympics, but not his first medal.
He added: “I’m sure he’s got the aptitude and the time to take the gold medal over the next ten years, he doesn’t like the heat so Rio was never the best place for him to perform”.
The 63-year-old said: “It’s worse watching than it is actually pulling the trigger”. It’s given me a taste and now I want to go and get some more.
He said: “I think he wants to come back to the farm and he wants to come back to the family”.
“I wanted him to be focused out there not worrying about what’s going on”.
“If we could talk to him now, I would tell him what I have always told him: you don’t have to win, you can come second”.
Ling said that his performance, which was watched by Princess Anne, had been a “long time coming”.
In sailing, five-time Olympian Nick Dempsey won two of his three races in the RS:X classification to lead the competition after day one.
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Konta herself made it through to round three of the women’s singles with a straight sets win over France’s Caroline Garcia.
“I’ve been teetotal since September 2014”, he said.
Team GB’s women’s rugby sevens team continued their imperious form, cruising past Fiji 26-7 in the quarter-finals to set up a tough semi-final against one of the favourites New Zealand, who squeezed past the US in their quarter-final.
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While there were “one or two that weren’t up to his usual success” the pair clinched bronze on the final dive.
