Good morning and welcome to coverage of the Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform where Tom Daley is aiming to win back-to-back gold medals for Team GB. Daley had the honour of being Great Britain’s flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony on Friday night along with Helen Glover. At Tokyo 2020, Daley won his first Olympic gold alongside Matty Lee, who misses the Games after surgery on a spinal injury in March, and is looking for gold again with Noah Williams. In their first competition in February, they won a world championship silver so can they go one medal better today? Lee has in fact partnered with Williams in recent years, winning Commonwealth gold and World Aquatics Championships silver together in 2022.
This is Daley’s fifth appearance at the Olympics, having made his debut aged 14 in Beijing in 2008, and he has four medals in the bag including that gold with Lee in Tokyo. His list of accolades is pretty impressive. Having become a world champion aged 15 in 2009, he has gone on to become an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, two-time junior World champion, five-time European champion and four-time Commonwealth champion. Although Daley has huge Olympic experience, Williams does not. He has just one Olympic event under his belt in the Men’s 10m Platform, finishing 27th so he will be leaning on Daley’s experience to guide him through.
They are up against the formidable Chinese duo of Yang Hao and Lian Junjie, who claimed gold in this event at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha back in February, beating Daley and Williams by nearly 50 points. French hopes rest on their pair of Gary Hunt and Lois Szymczak. Hunt was born in London and raised in Leeds, before moving to France in 2010 and securing French citizenship in 2020. This is his Olympic debut aged 40, the first diver to make his Olympic debut aged 40 or older since Stockholm 1912.
Stay with us for all the coverage as Daley and Williams go for gold, with the action commencing at 10.00 (BST).