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Tom Daley Surprised Diving Partner Matty Lee with an Olympic Ring Before Their Gold Medal Win
People ^ | 7/27/2021 | Nicholas Rice

Posted on 07/28/2021 3:54:21 AM PDT by sodpoodle

While chatting with Olympics.com shortly after the pair won gold in the men's 10m synchronized diving competition at the Tokyo Games, Lee, 23, opened up about the "special" gift that Daley, 27, surprised him with before they ever hit the water. "He surprised me with this Olympic ring, which is something really cool and special because it's the exact same mold of his ring that he got years and years ago after his first Olympics," Lee told the outlet. "So regardless of how we did, he still had a little surprise he brought from England. It's so, so special that he got me that." In a video posted to his YouTube page on Tuesday, Daley documented the pair's excitement after their Olympic feat, as he and Lee also showed off their matching rings. "We have matching ones," Daley said in the clip, and playfully called Lee his "work husband." Daley also showed off the moment he bestowed the gift to his diving partner while they were spending time together in the Olympic village. Speaking with reporters after their synchronized diving event, Daley said "It's kind of unbelievable" as he reflected on Olympic Games of years past. He previously won bronze medals in 2012 and 2016, at at this Games, having recently recovered from knee surgery, he was finally a champion. "I thought I was going to win an Olympic gold medal in Rio [in 2016] and that turned out the complete opposite by a long shot," Daley said, "and it was my husband who said to me that my story wasn't finished and that my son or child, we didn't know at the time, needed to be there to watch me win an Olympic gold medal."

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: diving; husbands; olympics
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To: sodpoodle

It is a distortion of our language for a man to call another man “my husband”.

I would be less upset if they more accurately said “my partner”, for at least that honestly implies just a partner, and not the special relationship of a woman’s husband.


21 posted on 07/28/2021 6:07:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: sodpoodle

This woke PC crap has infested everything. The Olympics are now focused on gays and panic attacks, and they are the heros now.


22 posted on 07/28/2021 6:09:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: sodpoodle

Faggot shit! Enough to turn a stomach. They should keep it in their own house, the public isn’t interested.


23 posted on 07/28/2021 6:12:39 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: sodpoodle
AAMCJTg
24 posted on 07/28/2021 6:17:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: sodpoodle

Further proof that Archie Bunker was right about England.


25 posted on 07/28/2021 6:19:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: sodpoodle

Yet another reason not to watch the dumpster fire Wokelympics. [spit]


26 posted on 07/28/2021 6:22:47 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: sodpoodle

Participation trophies come to the Olympics! He could also give out the first Simon Biles “I Quit” trophy to a deserving athlete . . .


27 posted on 07/28/2021 6:52:58 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: sodpoodle

It appears there is some mysterious connection between diving and we know what...Starting with great Greg Louganis.


28 posted on 07/28/2021 6:54:03 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: sodpoodle

Olympics are DEAD TO ME. (DTM)


29 posted on 07/28/2021 8:28:37 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

Perfect forum. Show it off to the world. Let the moozlems squirm.


30 posted on 07/28/2021 9:38:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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