Tom Daley and Helen Glover have been named as Team GB’s joint flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday. The duo boast three Olympic gold medals between them with Daley coming into the Games as the defending champion in the men’s 10m synchro diving event.Glover won coxless pairs gold in both London and Rio, and came out of retirement in 2021 in a quest to add to her medals tally in the French capital. Daley is the first diver to be afforded the honour of carrying the flag in the opening ceremony, while Glover is the second consecutive rower after Moe Sbihi in Tokyo.Daley, 30, said his first thoughts were with his father Robert, who died of cancer one year before his son won the first of his four Olympic medals in 2012. “My dad would not have ever believed I would be a flag bearer one day,” Daley said. “He always considered flag bearers to be Olympic icons and legends. I think he would be so incredibly proud of me being a flag bearer of…
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