Daley blasts Tweet troll because Waterfield states 'sorry' with regard to untidy jump

Tom Daley’s diving partner said ‘I’m sorry’ the moment the pair’s golden Olympic dream bit the dust.
Peter Waterfield missed a crucial fourth dive and offered his apology as soon as they got out of the water in the Aquatic Centre. Daley admitted he had also mistimed his dive and replied: ‘Same.’
Daley and Waterfield led the Olympic 10metre synchronised final after three immaculate dives, and hopes were raised that they could topple the mighty Chinese duo of Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang to win gold.
Annoyed: Tom Daley hit out at the Twitter troll
But the sight of large splashes as they entered the pool in round four, following a reverse three-and-a-half somersault, signalled the end of their ambitions and they finished in fourth place.
Meanwhile, Daley angrily hit out after being targeted by a Twitter troll who made reference to his late father.
Shortly after the competition, Daley retweeted a message he received which said: ‘You let your dad down i hope you know that.’
Daley responded by tweeting: ‘After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this…’
Daley’s father Rob died in 2011 from brain cancer.
Speaking before the Olympics, Daley revealed his father ‘gave me all the inspiration that I’ve needed’.
The 18-year-old told the BBC: ‘Winning a medal would make all the struggles that I’ve had worthwhile. It’s been my dream since a very young age to compete at an Olympics.
Edged out: Daley and partner Peter Waterfield finished in fourth
‘I’m doing it for myself and my dad. It was both our dreams from a very young age.
‘I always wanted to do it and Dad was so supportive of everything.
‘It would make it extra special to do it for him.’
When news of the insensitive tweet spread, the user attempted to apologise.
He tweeted: ‘I’m sorry mate i just wanted you to win cause its the olympics I’m just annoyed we didn’t win I’m sorry tom accept my apology.’
Then he later added: ‘please i don’t want to be hated I’m just sorry you didn’t win i was rooting for you pal to do britain all proud just so upset.’
Daley famously fell out with Blake Aldridge during the platform synchro at the last Olympics in Beijing when he claimed his former partner answered a phone call from his mother between dives.

Sorry: Waterfield (right) apologised to Daley after a bad dive

Ironically, Daley’s mum was interviewed on the big screen before their final dive on Monday, before he this time absolved his team-mate of any blame after they fell 8.82 points short of the United States in the bronze medal position.
‘We’re a team. At the end of the day that’s it, full stop,’ Daley said.
‘We’re a team and we win together and we lose together. We’re proud of being here at the Olympic Games in front of a home crowd.
‘It’s been a tough year for me training-wise and it’s been tough for Pete with injury and things like that. You win as a team and you lose as a team.’
The duo had initially whipped the home support, which included Prime Minister David Cameron, into a frenzy of noise as they claimed the lead after the best opening three dives of their career.
After a near-perfect compulsory set Daley attracted a perfect 10, with Waterfield not far behind, for their back three-and-a-half somersaults to leave them 2.4 points clear at the top at halfway.
Inevitably the response of the Chinese, still unbeaten in international competition during their young careers, was to post 10s on their next dive and when both Daley and Waterfield then missed their entries they had suddenly slipped to fourth.

Too much: The pair made it too hard for themselves on the last dive

It drew an audible groan inside the Aquatics Centre and while they produced a solid if unspectacular forward four-and-a-half somersaults – their hardest dive – next they had left themselves with too much work to do.
‘It’s the worst place to finish at the Olympics. I would have rather finished last, because then at least you know you’ve missed every dive,’ Waterfield said.
‘On the fourth dive I had a great start, I was spinning really well and I just kicked my feet a little bit too high, which means I was over-rotated. And once you’ve kicked and over-rotated, you can’t then stop it.’
Daley admitted they could not afford to make the error in such a fiercely-competitive field.
‘Our first two dives were the best of the competition and then the third dive was one of our best as well, so after three dives we were on the highest score we’ve ever got,’ he said.
‘But then on the fourth dive we missed and in this level of competition and in this field you can’t afford to miss any dives.
‘We did pretty well to stay in fourth and the home crowd did really lift us after that dive that we missed – but at the end of the day if we got nine points more on our reverse three-and-a-half, which normally we would be able to do, then we would have been on that podium.’

The result means that Daley will have to wait to fulfil his dream of capturing an Olympic medal – the last major honour to elude him during his already decorated young career.
The Plymouth diver is set to, under instruction from performance director Alexei Evangulov, escape the pressures of the Olympic Village tonight to embark on a six-day training programme at a base in Southend.
Daley will then return for his anticipated individual platform showdown with world champion Qiu Bo on the penultimate day of the Olympics.
Daley memorably beat Bo to win the world platform title as a 15-year-old in 2009 and, while the Chinese has proved unbeatable since, Daley has hit career-best form leading up to the Games to provide hope he can cause an upset.
‘It’s upsetting that I haven’t been able to realise my dream with Pete of getting an Olympic medal, but we’re going to go back to Southend in our holding camp and train there, then come back for the individual event,’ he said.
‘It just wasn’t our day today, which is a shame.’

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Great Britain 4 Argentina 1: Team GB off to flyer in hot tempered clash with old foe

We want five. It’s not a chant you hear for a British team every day. Certainly not when playing Argentina.
We didn’t get five, of course, but four will do for starters. There may be more later this week when Great Britain face South Africa. This is the Olympics and this is hockey.
So while certain aspects are familiar to all who follow the national sport — 11-a-side, the fans’ band, the edge against certain opponents, the odd outbreak of histrionics — it is rather delightful to be on the right side of all the good stuff.
In this sport it is the home team, it is us, that have the flair, the finesse and the determination to attack. Great Britain are the style council at this tournament, they play high-risk, high-tempo hockey and demand their rivals match them. Last night it worked, and Argentina could not.
This was also payback for an unsavoury little incident that had occurred in the build-up to the competition. Fernando Zylberberg, then Argentina’s captain — he’s not now — had been shown training on sites in the Falkland Islands, including a war memorial, in a television campaign.
Home rule: Ben Hawes (left) and Matt Daly (centre) celebrate with captain Barry Middleton
Olympic Games 2012: Homage to the Fallen and the Veterans of the Malvinas was its title. ‘To compete on English soil we train on Argentine soil,’ read the slogan.
Zylberberg was depicted clambering over various parts of the territory Argentina would like to reclaim as the Malvinas. He tied his laces on a war monument. It is fair to say this left a residue of  ill feeling.
It did not exactly explode at London’s Riverbank Arena because hockey is not like that.
The teams shook hands at the end and apart from a sin bin spell for Argentina’s Agustin Mazzilli, both countries kept 11 players on the field. There was no need for a repeat of Sir Alf Ramsey’s ‘animals’ outburst following a quarter-final victory at football’s World Cup in 1966, no equivalent of the Hand of God, or the dirty tricks that got David Beckham sent off for a moment of foolishness in 1998.
There was, however, a degree of niggle — Argentina’s Pedro Ibarra was quite spectacularly cleaned out by Matt Daly — a ferocious desire and, at the end, a lap of honour to celebrate a job well done.
Argy bargy: It was a tetchy affair between the two teams in Stratford

This has been a highly promising start for both Great Britain teams. On Sunday night, Japan were beaten 4-0 by the highly regarded women, and this was an emphatic statement by the men.
Great Britain led 4-0 before Argentina pulled one back through Ibarra at a penalty corner, but the outcome was long decided.
Britain were not all beauty but brawn, too; they more than matched Argentina’s physicality and destroyed them going forward. A goal had already been disallowed when captain Barry Middleton (left) opened the scoring after 21 minutes from a penalty corner. He added his second shortly after the interval, a fantastic backhand strike from the edge of the D.
The best goal was Britain’s third, a quite electric break that ended with Ashley Jackson — the closest thing British hockey has to a star — feeding Dan Fox, whose finish was sublime.
The scoring was completed by Richard Smith when Argentina were reduced to 10 men: by then British superiority did not depend on team numbers.
Next up for the men are South Africa, defeated  6-0 by Australia yesterday, which augers well. No clues to guessing who the main rivals will be here.
Still, if Argentina can be dispatched in this fashion, who knows? The Poms may get their day on the Smurf Turf yet.
Stunning start: Team GB – with huge home support – started their gold medal chase with a win

With Jackson off the pitch again Smith then succeeded where he had failed in the first half by beating Vivaldi from a penalty corner.
Argentina scored with a set-piece of their own with 15 minutes to go through Ibarra, who later became yet another to be sin-binned as the Argentinians lost their discipline, but it was not enough to spoil the hosts’ party.
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