Tom Daley: Control What You Can, Accept What You Can't
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After coming out of retirement and winning Silver at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, we revisit a captivating conversation with one of Britain's most recognised athletes, Tom Daley.
In this episode, Tom shares his inspiring journey with Jake and Damian, revealing how growing up feeling different had given him the strength to succeed. He opens up about losing his father to cancer in 2011, coming out as gay, having a baby, and becoming a prominent spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ community.
Listen in as we learn from Tom Daley's incredible story and the lessons he learned along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Standing on the end of that diving board, once the whistle blows, it is silent. You can hear a pin drop. |
| 0:05.0 | I look down and you see the Olympic rings on the bottom of the pool. |
| 0:08.0 | Walking to the end thinking, this is the moment that I have dreamt of my whole life and I just was like you know what I |
| 0:15.2 | get one shot at this and I just remember having this switch in my head where I was |
| 0:18.6 | like I'm gonna give this everything I've got. That is Olympian Tom Daly and this is high performance. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome along to a special episode of high performance released because we're in the |
| 0:29.1 | throws of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the moment and one of the most moving and inspiring |
| 0:35.6 | stories so far from the games is that man Tom Daly having decided to retire |
| 0:40.4 | from diving having spent a couple of years not competing, he returns, he's at the Olympic |
| 0:46.2 | Games and he medals once again. He is one of the greatest athletes this country has ever produced, and he's been through some really |
| 0:53.6 | tough times to get to this point as well and today's episode isn't just about all |
| 0:57.4 | of the great things that have happened in Tom's life we also discuss with him and in |
| 1:01.3 | some ways celebrate with him the fact that the hardest |
| 1:03.9 | challenges and the toughest times can often be the thing that really makes somebody. |
| 1:07.8 | There's a reason why Tom Daly keeps on competing at the top level and keeps on |
| 1:12.2 | delivering and you're about to find out what those |
| 1:14.4 | reasons are. As always thank you so much for coming along to high performance to get your |
| 1:18.7 | dose of inspiration and knowledge if you want even more then right now you can download the high |
| 1:24.4 | performance app we've created some amazing content on there as we go inside the |
| 1:29.3 | team gb diving training camp with Tom and the rest of the divers preparing for the |
| 1:34.0 | 2024 games it's a really cool mini documentary it's called behind greatness |
| 1:38.1 | you can find it right now on the high performance app here's a quick taste of what you can expect the high performance app. Here's a quick taste of what you can expect. |
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