Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow produced a brilliant last dive to seal a superb bronze medal in the men’s 10m synchronised competition.
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Daley is due to compete in the men’s 10m synchro with Daniel Goodfellow on Monday while his individual 10m event will take place on August 19.
Goodfellow, 19, moved into Daley’s London apartment two months ago so they could train together, live out of each other’s pockets and reinforce the wavelengths required to hit the water in ideal synchronicity at 34mph.
He added: “I’m sure he’s got the aptitude and the time to take the gold medal over the next 10 years”.
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“It was an agonising wait at the end and felt like an eternity”.
Daley said: “I am stood on that diving board in the Olympic final in the most important moment of my life”.
“We were just waiting and waiting with replay after replay, then all of a sudden the scores came up”. The British pair, who have only been training together since last October, left it until their last dive to secure their spot on the podium, scoring 444.45 to finish six points clear of fourth-placed Germany.
“We are ready for any kind of weather – we’ve trained in rain, in wind, under cloud cover, in hot sunshine. you name it, we’ve trained in it”.
There was heartache for fencer Kruse, who in his fourth Olympics came agonisingly close to winning his first medal. When I was a girl we didn’t make finals, let alone expect to make the podiums.
“Going into Beijing, I was 14 years old”, Daley said. “Trust me, I’d rather be shooting than watching”.
“If we could talk to him now, I would tell him what I have always told him: you don’t have to win”.
However, he late said that going to the World Championships was “too much” for him after hitting his peak in the Juniors just a fortnight before.
“But at the same time, I feel more comfortable now and there are lots of things that have been sightly different since 2012”.
With it being one of Team GB’s first medals so far in the tournament, Twitter was alight with excitement.
Their success follows a gold medal for Adam Peaty, who won the men’s 100m breaststroke and set a new world record.
GB had been in fifth with two dives remaining by the newly-formed duo kept their nerve to claim a fourth medal of the Games.
The 19-year-old Olympian was cut out from some coverage, leading to criticism from fans. “I just accepted that and tried to block everything else out and focus on my dives”.
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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 United States of America in their quarter-final.
