Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow win bronze in the 10m synchro diving final Good Morning Britain reveal message Well done boys!
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Daley begins his third Olympic campaign in the men’s synchronised 10m platform with Daniel Goodfellow on Monday.
Goodfellow and Daley were living together in London for five weeks before they even got to Rio, and the two share a room in the Olympic village.
Despite being just 22, Daley will be competing in his third Olympic Games in Rio following his debut at Beijing 2008 and bronze medal at London 2012.
Daley commented, “It was an agonising wait that felt like it was an eternity”.
She added: “I watched Tom’s dive with my three sons and we were all cheering him on and really supporting him”.
I knew how I was going to feel if we finished fourth.
“We were just waiting and waiting with replay after replay, then all of a sudden the scores came up”.
The Team GB pair finished on 444.45 to claim third place.
Tom’s fiancé Dustin Lance Black is one in particular who’s taken to social media to show his excitement – and it’s so lovely!
He said afterwards: “I want to thank the whole of Britain, my country, the Royal family and everything that makes me proud to be British”.
“Our fourth dive wasn’t awesome but towards the back end of our list we have a really high degree of difficulty”. The 20-year-old won a gold medal at the World Championships in the same event 12 months ago looked a shadow of himself in the semi-final, squeezing into the final as the eigth fastest qualifier. In December 2013, he published an emotional YouTube video in which he said “I still fancy girls” but added that he was in a relationship with a man.
He told Cambridge News: “Tom has been there and done it all really, so it’s nice to have someone like him as he knows when to warm-up, when to train and what routines to do before we get on the boards”.
CONGRATULATIONS! OLYMPIC BRONZE @danngoodfellow & @TomDaley1994. He’s here, I’ve got to deal with it and move on.
It was a frustrating day for Great Britain’s equestrian eventing team in the cross-country phase of the Olympic competition as team’s eventing medal hopes slipped away.
“It means I go into each competition a lot calmer, a lot more focused on what each dive needs to be like in order to get the results that I want”.
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 U.S. in their quarter-final.
On Sunday Lizzie Armitstead could only manage fifth in the women’s road race and fencer Richard Kruse lost an incredibly close bronze medal match in the foil.
Olympics 2016 continues on BBC One and Two.
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And although a fall from Louis Smith all but ended hopes of a medal, the huge quality Japan, Russia and China produced earlier in the competition left the squad with too much to do.
