Tom Daley, the diving champ who has recently made headlines in the aquatics. At the 2024 World Championships, after seven years of remaining shy of World wins, he clinched his first World title. Clinching gold for Britain alongside Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, he officially came out of his retirement.

Having a penchant for artistic stuff, Daley is inclined towards yarns and knitting. But similar to yarns, he also has something in his creative purse that is directly related to his beloved sport.

Tom Daley surfaces with a unique possession

British Swimming’s Instagram post reads “A World Cup return beckons for @tomdaley. Will more tape be added to the infamous ball in Montreal?”. In the first event of the 2024 Diving World Cup series, Great Britain finished behind China in the mixed-team event. Securing the podium with just 68.30 points short of the winning score, the team including Daley celebrated with great joy. But in a post-race interview, the Olympic gold medalist in the men’s synchronized 10-metre platform came to light with his rarest passion.

Montreal had the best sets of divers from across the world but only a few could make it to the podium. A two-year-long retirement was running fine until he took his son to an Olympic museum in the USA. “Papa, I want to see you dive at the Olympics”, these were Robbie’s words when Daley found himself in an uncontrollable state, willing to get back to competition. But on his recent ‘tape ball’ reveal, are the fans on the same board as him?

Fans left in splits

Jane Figueiredo, a diving coach unabashedly trolled Daley, saying, “…think I might sell it on eBay and go on a holiday”. While another fan crossed the troll and wrote, “Million dollar ball”. One fan identified the similarity of the tape ball with a Swiss Ball and said, “Perhaps you could sumo squat with it?!!!”. 

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Another fan evoked humor out of it and said, “That’s hilarious”. I like you Tom Daley”, came almost naturally to a fan who admires aquatic finesse and good looks. Another water nerd commented, “and we thought our tape balls were bad”, while tagging his partner. Nearing the Paris Olympics 2024, the 29-year-old is training in London but residing with family in Los Angeles.

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