Tom Daley’s brave, frank and very modern revelation about the complicated and unforeseen changes in his private life could have wider, positive implications not just for sport, but for 19-year-olds everywhere.
Those rolling their eyes and suggesting Daley’s sexual orientation is no surprise to them, should ask themselves how they’d have felt making such a public statement, not just telling their family, but sitting down on the sofa afterwards to tell the wider world in all its hard-nosed judgement.In breaking the news using video and social media Daley connected directly with his fans admitting, tacitly, and explicitly, that he didn’t trust the mainstream media not to twist his words and turn the story into more than it is.
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