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Tom Daley says countries “criminalising” LGBTQ+ people “shouldn’t be hosting major sporting events”

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The 27-year-old won gold in the 10 metre synchronised platform diving competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo – a first for the professional diver.

Daley previously won two bronze medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, as well as a third at Tokyo 2020.

In an interview with GQ, he spoke about homophobic comments made against him on Russian TV during this year’s Games. “There are ten countries where [being LGBTQ+] is punishable by death that are still competing at the Olympic Games,” Daley explained. “So, yeah.

I only found out recently [about the comments]. I didn’t know that at the time: I was very much in an Olympic bubble.” The diver went on to state that countries “criminalising” the community should think

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