A trip down memory lane that triggered a vivid emotional reaction has brought the diver out of retirement with Paris in sight
It was all over, Tom Daley absolutely insists. Until, quite out of the blue, it wasn’t. “I mean, I’d moved to America,” says the one-time diving prodigy who finally elevated to Olympic champion in Tokyo three years ago. “I was like: ‘That’s it, I’m not doing it.’”
A rigid regime in the cause of making a splash at his base in London had been replaced by what seems an idyll of eternal sunshine in Los Angeles, transplanted there with his screenwriter husband Dustin Lance Black and their first-born Robbie ahead of the welcome arrival of a second son, Phoenix, last March.