Read moreTom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals12 August 2024Tom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals Tom Daley has retired from diving after a senior international career that spanned 16 years and brought Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles. The 30-year-old has been winning national titles since 2007 and in...
Read moreGold Medalist Diver Matty Lee to Miss Paris Olympics after Spinal Surgery27 March 2024Gold Medalist Diver Matty Lee to Miss Paris Olympics after Spinal Surgery Olympic gold medalist Matty Lee of Great Britain will miss the Paris Olympics this summer after undergoing spinal surgery. Lee posted to social media that he underwent a discectomy on his L5/S1 disk. The procedure treated chro...
Read moreFlorent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 202426 July 2024Florent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 2024 Florent Manaudou and Tom Daley were among the flagbearers for France and Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024. Manaudou won 50 free gold on his Olympic debut at London 2012, taking silver in the two subse...
Read moreTeam GB Announces 11-Strong Diving Squad For Paris 202411 June 2024Team GB Announces 11-Strong Diving Squad For Paris 2024 Team GB's diving line-up for Paris 2024 has been announced following the selection of three further divers who'll join the likes of Tom Daley, Jack Laugher and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix in an 11-strong team. Grace Reid, Jordan Houlden and Kyle ...
Read moreWhy Can’t The USA Compete In The Commonwealth Games? (And Other Burning Questions)22 July 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, July 22. THE Opening Ceremony of the 20th Commonwealth Games takes place in a matter of hours in Glasgow, Scotland, with swimming heats set to begin Thursday morning. The roster of nations that are invited to this prestigious competitions is an exclusive one, and can't be entered i...
Read moreTom Daley And Adam Peaty Finish Second And Third In BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year19 December 2021Olympic champions Tom Daley and Adam Peaty were second and third respectively in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award. Emma Raducanu was crowned the winner after a stunning effort at the US Open where she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament in the Open era. Dal...
Read moreOlympics: China Near Perfect on 10-Meter Men’s Synchro; Tom Daley Adds Silver to Set29 July 2024Olympics: China Near Perfect on 10-Meter Men’s Synchro; Tom Daley Adds Silver to Set China’s duo of Lian Junjie and Yang Hao were near perfect in capturing gold in the 10-meter men’s synchro on Monday, with Tom Daley helping Great Britain to silver. Lian and Yang scored 490.35 points, with the top s...
Read moreParis Olympics: Tom Daley Set For Historic Fifth Games, 16 Years After Debut At Beijing 200828 July 2024Paris Olympics: Tom Daley Set For Historic Fifth Games, 16 Years After Debut At Beijing 2008 Tom Daley will on Monday compete in an historic fifth Olympic Games, 16 years after making his debut aged 14 at Beijing 2008. Now 30, the Team GB athlete will become the first British diver to take to the Ol...
Read moreAndy Banks, Longtime Coach of Tom Daley, Headed to Diving Australia11 May 2017Diving Australia recently announced that British Diving Coach Andy Banks is making a switch from the UK to the Australian National Team. In January of 2014, two-time Olympic bronze medalist and two-time World Champion Tom Daley of Great Britain announced that he would be making a coaching change hea...
Read moreWorld Championships Doha: Tom Daley Set For Fifth Olympics After Synchro Silver With Noah Williams09 February 2024World Championships Doha: Tom Daley Set For Fifth Olympics After Synchro Silver With Noah Williams Tom Daley is on course for his fifth Olympics after winning silver alongside Noah Williams in the men's 10m synchro at the World Championships in Doha. Lian Junjie and Yang Hao of China claimed their t...
Read moreTom Daley Makes History As He Is Named To Great Britain Squad For Fifth Olympics In Paris07 May 2024Tom Daley Makes History As He Is Named To Great Britain Squad For Fifth Olympics In Paris Tom Daley will become the first British diver to compete at five Olympic Games after four synchro pairings were named to Team GB for Paris 2024. With Aquatics GB divers having qualified a full set of Games quot...
Read moreThe Daley Extra: World Champ British Diver Tom Daley Further Adored As DIY Knitter, Crocheter, and Feel-Good Content Creator Ahead of Fourth Olympics24 June 2021World Champ British Diver Tom Daley Further Adored As DIY Knitter, Crocheter, and Feel-Good Content Creator Ahead of Fourth Olympics On May 1, British diver Tom Daley, whose passage to the Olympics was already assured by his synchronized bronze medal from the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, Kor...
Read moreSwim England CEO Nickerson In Plea For Government Funds For Public Pools24 July 2020Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson has pleaded with the Government to provide financial support to ensure swimming doesn’t become leisure’s ‘forgotten activity’ with 30% of public pools to remain closed until 2021. Indoor pools across England are allowed to reopen from Saturday 25 July for the first ti...
Read moreAdam Peaty, British Swimming NPD Chris Spice And Tom Daley Awarded OBEs In New Year's Honours List31 December 2021Three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to swimming and mental health in the New Year's Honours List for 2022. British Swimming national performance director Chris Spice also becomes an OBE as does Olympic diving champi...
Read moreTom Daley, Rebecca Gallantree Win 1st Mixed Team Diving World Title at 2015 FINA World Championships29 July 2015Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree struck world gold for Great Britain, resoundingly beating a pair of newly crowned Chinese champions to claim the inaugural mixed team diving title at 2015 FINA World Championships. Daley, world 10m champion in 2009, excelled himself with monumental scores in his two ...
Read moreChina Shines At Home During FINA Diving World Cup Competition In Shanghai17 July 2014Chen Aisen/Huang Xiaohui gave host China their first gold medal by sweeping the mixed team event on the opening day of the 19th FINA Diving World Cup, organised in Shanghai on July 15-20. The Chinese duo collected 408.60 points from three solid dives each to win the title, while Ukraine's Oleksandr ...
Read morePassages: Swim England Diving Coach David Jenkins, 3112 October 2021Passages: Swim England Diving Coach David Jenkins, 31 Swim England on Monday announced the death of diving coach David Jenkins over the weekend. Jenkins was just 31 years old. No other details were released, however British swimming, “asked for the privacy of his family, friends and the British Divi...
Read moreBritish Diving Names 13 to World Championships Team11 June 2019British Diving has named a strong team of 13 divers who will travel to Gwangju, South Korea next month for the World Aquatics Championships. 13 Brits will make the trip to the Far East for the Championships, which get underway on Friday 12 July, with Olympic champion Jack Laugher and World Champion ...
Read more1Swimmer Hobbies: A Necessary Break From the Pool02 November 2021Swimmer Hobbies: A Necessary Break From the Pool By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern One of the most demanding sports, swimming calls for a great deal of dedication, so it can be helpful to have some hobbies to relax after a hard day of training. A swimmer’s main hobby remains swimming, ...
Read more2021 European Aquatics Championships: Hentschel-Punzel, Bondar Win Tight Diving Events16 May 2021Great Britain diver Tom Daley received 10 perfect marks of 10.0 in the platform final, but not even those were enough against Russia’s Aleksandr Bondar, who put together a stunning gold-medal performance at the European Championships. The women's diving had similar drama as the slimmest winning marg...