Tom Daly. Photo by Jim Thurston
The British diver Tom Daley said Monday he hoped his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics would be a shining example for the LGBTQ community that “you can achieve anything,” reports NBC News.
Daley and his diving partner, Matty Lee, swept to victory in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform event, with the British diver crying tears of joy at the podium. This is Daly’s fourth Olympics and the first time he has taken a gold medal.
“I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion,” he said. “And I feel very empowered by that because when I was younger, I thought I was never going to be anything, or achieve anything, because of who I was, and to be an Olympic champion now just shows that you can achieve anything.”
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