What you won't read in Tom Daley's new memoir, Coming Up for Air (HarperCollins), is that barely had he dried off from achieving a life goal of becoming an Olympic champion at last summer's much-delayed 2020 Tokyo games than he gave a press conference so heartfelt, so unexpected, so bold and disarmingly direct that it has attained 'greatest hits' status.The British diver —who may not be known in only that way for much longer, such a runaway train is his bright, rapidly unfolding future— spoke of the honor of being not just an Olympic multi-medalist but also by doing so as an out, understandably proud gay man.
He made this statement while acutely aware that too many of his counterparts were doing so as citizens of countries in which being.