It’s been a long 13 year journey for Tom Daley, but all the training has finally paid off as he and Matty Lee win Olympic gold for Team GB.
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Tom Daley ended his long wait for an Olympic gold medal with a sublime display alongside Matty Lee in a nerve-filled men's synchronised 10m platform event at Tokyo 2020.
In a nail-biting finale, the British pair watched on as Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen conducted their final dive and broke into wild celebrations when it became clear they had ended China's golden grip on the event, dating back to 2000.
For Daley - now 27 - it marks a first gold medal at his fourth Olympic Games and he duly wept on the podium, while Lee - four years his junior - can contemplate gold at the first time of asking.
"I still can't honestly believe what is happening," Daley told BBC Sport. "That moment, being about to be announced as Olympic champions, I was gone. I was blubbering."
The pair dived impeccably throughout, moving top of the leaderboard after four dives, before going on to expertly handle nerves and pressure in their final two routines . . .
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