Britain’s Tom Daley informs LGBTQ youth ‘you are not alone’ after taking gold at Tokyo Olympics

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Britain's Tom Daley tells LGBTQ youth 'you are not alone' after taking gold at Tokyo Olympics

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The British scuba diver Tom Daley stated Monday he hoped his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics would be a shining example for the LGBTQ neighborhood that “you can achieve anything.”

Daley and his diving partner, Matty Lee, swept to triumph in the males’s integrated 10-meter platform occasion, with the British scuba diver weeping tears of delight at the podium. This is Daly’s 4th Olympics and the very first time he has actually taken a gold medal.

“I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion,” he stated. “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.”

Daley, 27, stated he was thankful to see a record-breaking variety of freely out LGBTQ professional athletes taking part in the Olympic Games this year.

However, he stated that when he initially came out in December 2013, he had “always felt like the one that was alone and different and didn’t fit in.”

“There was something about me that was always never going to be as good as what society wanted me to be,” he stated.

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Now, he stated, “I hope that any young LGBT person out there can see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone. That you can achieve anything and that there is a whole lot of your chosen family out here, ready to support you.”

Daley made the remarks as he stood in between professional athletes representing China and Russia — 2 nations where same-sex marital relationship is illegal.

It is uncertain whether his remarks were transmitted in both those countries. However, media from both China and Russia have actually existed at the Games.

More than 160 members of the LGBTQ neighborhood were anticipated to take part in the Summer Games, according to the sports news site Outsports.

The number is almost triple the 56 who took part in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, with about 34 professional athletes originating from the United States to the Tokyo Games.

Daley and Lee’s triumph on Monday saw the duo surface with an overall rating of 471.81 points, protecting a narrow triumph over China’s Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen by 1.23 points.

The bronze medal was declared by Russia’s Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev with 439.92 points.