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.
However, he has since revealed that the road to this year’s Games was not an easy one after falling victim to coronavirus. Speaking about this for the first time to The Times Magazine, he says: “It was a Monday morning in January this year and I started training but had a headache.
I felt dizzy, but put it down to a diving concussion from a few weeks earlier. “The following day, my sore head continued so I took a lateral flow test so we could rule out Covid.” Des