Tom continued: ‘I love fashion, creating things I can wear and use in the house, so that’s why I launched Made With Love knitting and crochet kits at the end of last year. Often lots of people get quite sad when they think about the parents they've lost, but for me, it just makes me so happy and proud to have done what we had always dreamed of doing.

What’s helped him manage the stress, he says, is knitting, a pastime his husband first suggested he try. It’s nice now that athletes are able to open up and talk about those things a little bit more," he continues. I know he would have done something crazy [after the gold in Tokyo], he would have fallen down off the balcony, he would probably have jumped in the pool. He would have been the streaker of the Olympics; I just know he would have done something silly.That for me was a really tough one to keep going through, but I kind of really that shut away and I didn’t really take the time to grieve until a few years later, because I just buried myself into diving,” he says. So many things can change at the last minute. Life is so fleeting, and I just don’t necessarily have time to be mad at people and hold on to grudges. It’s just energy wasted. There’s always a positive side of things. Control the things you can and let go of the uncontrollable. You can live a much happier life that way.’ Knitlympics: Knit Your Favourite Sports Star by Carol Meldrum is published by Collins & Brown. Photographs by Holly Jolliffe. DALEY: If somebody had told me five years ago that I would have even known how to knit, I would've probably laughed in their faces. DALEY: You know, the easiest thing to make and the best place to start is with, like, a scarf because, you know, you're going to be going in a straight line. You just have to learn one stitch, and off you go.

Summer 2021 saw Tom compete in the Tokyo Olympics where he won his first Olympic gold medal alongside his diving partner Matty Lee in the 10m synchro event. Followed by a bronze medal in the 10m individual event, Tom is the most decorated British diver of all time. I think those kind of lessons that he has taught me about being a parent. I now understand. And I have a whole new level of appreciation for my parents." Daley on... his son Years earlier, a seven-year-old Daley was just starting out. And how, exactly, does a child that age psych themselves up to launch off a board several times their size? ‘You start on smaller boards and work your way up. But yeah, I spent a lot of my time crying at the end of the board because I was so terrified of it. And I hit my head twice when I was a kid.’ NADWORNY: Yeah. Do you have tips for how people can make knitting and crocheting get them to that peace and tranquility - that practice of mindfulness?Rio in 2016 was his most difficult because he thought he was going to be at his best. "Then it didn’t quite turn out as I wanted,” Daley says. The Monday Night Club discuss whether Jude Bellingham is England's best talent since Paul Gascoigne, after he was named best young player at Monday's Ballon d'Or ceremony. hope of launching a ready-to-wear line. ‘One day, I’d love to have my own fashion week show. I’d like to be able to walk in and see things in stores, too,’ he says, doodling designs on some paper. I felt everything was happening for a reason. If anything, I see it as a blessing that I was able to feel rested and I hadn't just been training, training, training.