A post shared by Tom Daley (@tomdaley) Olympic champion Tom Daley has given a wide-ranging interview to The Guardian in which he answers readers’ questions about his career, coming out as gay, his family, and dealing with grief.One of Daley’s earliest and biggest supporters was his father, Rob, who accompanied him to all his training sessions and early competitions.Tragically, Rob Daley was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died in 2011 aged just 40.Tom Daley publishes his memoir, Coming Up For Air, this month.
In it, he talks about some of his dad’s ashes being buried beside the diving pool of the London Aquatic Center. The state-of-the-art facilities were built ahead of London hosting the Olympic Games in 2012.