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S15, Ep10 How To Fail: Tom Daley, the Olympic diving champion on his fear of mistakes, body image and perfectionism

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How to Quit Diving

There's been many times where I've wanted to give up diving. When I was nine years old, I drew a picture of myself doing a handstand that had the Olympic rings and said London 2012. That was like, I want to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games. And it got to a point where I was so unhappy with everything that I actually decided to quit. But when you have those days that you just show up and you keep going that kind of really make the biggest difference.

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