Lots of people would come out after they had retired, so I just hope that winning an Olympic gold medal, winning any Olympic medal, going to the Olympics as a gay person, a member of the LGBT community, that any young kids out there that feel like they are less than.

In a video posted to his Made With Love by Tom Daley official Instagram profile, the athlete said he hoped the kits would encourage people to take up the hobby. On a mission to inspire the next generation of crafters, Tom’s Made With Love book featuring 40 exclusive projects was published in October 2022 and became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. A couple of years later, he started competing, doing his first senior nationals at the age of 10, convinced he would be terrible. To say his life has been ‘all go’ since he committed to diving at the age of seven is probably just a minor – ahem – understatement. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.Growing up in Plymouth with his mum, dad and two younger brothers, it was boredom with swimming that first got Daley into the sport. When it came time to compete in the 2020 Olympics (held in Tokyo in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic), his newfound hobby helped “save” him from overthinking, he says. Britain's Daley has been a household name since he first stepped on an Olympic diving board, aged 14. The author Tom Daley is an Olympian swimmer, who brings his competitive spirit to knitting he talks about challenging yourself to do more complicated patterns for example. I haven’t really made any final decisions yet and I am enjoying a little bit of time away from the pool,” Daley tells TODAY.

The father of one said: “There are loads of things I’m doing to keep myself going, like yoga and visualisation, but I’ve also taken up knitting, which could be my secret weapon. Tom Daley has regularly spoken about LGBTQ+ rights throughout the years which is why he’s a public figure that everyone can look up to. One of my earliest memories of Daley is of a journalist greeting him with a camera and microphone on live TV, literally on the airport tarmac, fresh off the long-haul flight that carried the Beijing Team GB squad back to Heathrow.But some of my favorite ones in there are just some of the very basic scarves that are, you know, using mohair so that they look really - like, they feel and look, like, quite, like, expensive, but you've made it yourself, and you've done it. And it just turned into my mindfulness, my meditation, my calm and my way to escape the stresses of everyday life and, in particular, going into an Olympics. But not only that, he’s at the top of his field and I thought, “Well, if I’m going to be with him, I need to be at the top of mine. When I say I'm obsessed with knitting, I was knitting on the way, on the bus to the pool, on the bus home from the pool, in the stands, whenever I had a spare moment. Olympic gold medal–winning diver and beloved LGBTQ icon Tom Daley offers thirty exclusive knitting and crocheting patterns to enjoy and share.