Tom Daley says revive

When he was a young diver, Tom Daley never imagined that one day he would feel safe enough to share details of his personal life with fans. That changed in 2013, when the British Olympic diver came out as gay on a YouTube video.

Twelve years later, Daley becomes even more sincere in a new documentary, “Tom Daley: 1.6 seconds.” Released this month on Discovery+ and Olympics.com in the USA. And in HBO Max elsewhere, the film finds the now retired athlete who reflects on his rise to fame, his way to life as his true self and his relations with her eight -year -old husband, the scriptwriter and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black, and his late father, Robert Daley.

“It’s strange when someone comes to you and says:” We want to make a documentary about your life. “I was a little doubted to start, because … what do I have to say? Daley told News in an interview.” But the more I got into what was happening under the surface when it was growing … the fact that my children can understand a little more about what their dad did … He felt like therapy. ”

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Daley aquatic skill fans will not feel disappointed by the “1.6 seconds”, whose title refers to their victory of the gold medal on the 10 -meter synchronized platform of the men at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, held in 2021. While working in the film, the director Vaughan Sivell lost Childhood Competitions and, later, director Vaughan Sivell.

In fact, Daley himself had not seen many of the videos before sitting to provide his comment on the camera. He can be seen crying after some particularly emotional clips, some of which include his father, who died of cancer in 2011 at age 40.

“If it could be half of the dad, my dad was for me, I feel that my life would be complete,” Daley said. “My second name is Robert, named for my dad. My eldest son is also a Robert, we call him Robbie. The relationship I had with my dad is how to be a father now.”

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Other emotional moments in the film include the period prior to the presentation of Daley, as well as the first days of his relationship with Black, whom he refers simply as “spear.” In addition to Robbie, Black and Daley, 6, they share a 1 -year -old son, Phoenix.

“When I left, I had no idea what was going to happen to the other side,” said Daley. “They told me that I was going to lose sponsors and not being able to compete in certain countries. There was much fear around him [and] I didn’t think I could open myself to fall in love beyond a superficial level. But when I met Lance, I felt that I had met my teammate forever. “

Black recently completed the work in his own documentary, “Rock Out”, which examines the unnoticed influence of the LGBTQ+ community in heavy metal, punk and rock music.

Daley, meanwhile, has changed his professional approach. As seen in “1.6 seconds”, it became knitting and knitting in 2020, and since then has launched the Made With Love brand dedicated to his work. He continues to weave as his “superpower” and a “mental restart”, and will show further his skills such as the presenter of “The Game of Wool”, an upcoming television series.

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The sports and fabric of both invoice in Daley’s new role as a Mental Health defender. In the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, he was granted a reduction after distracted by a large number of flashes of the Crowd Chamber, a chilling moment captured in “1.6 seconds” that impacted his own mental health.

“We spend our whole life training our bodies to be able to do the thing,” he said. “But if you don’t train your brain too, how do you know if you are going to be able to keep it together in the competition? On a micro or macro level, at some point, they all deal with a really stressful situation, and how you navigate that and performing under stress and under pressure they will really play how successful that moment could be.

These days, his routine also includes “going for a walk with my husband. We leave our children at school, and then we are going to walk, and we only spend the first hour of our morning talking among us. And I know that that might not necessarily be 100% full attention, but it is our way of talking to each other about anything and everything.”

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