Retired gold medallist tells Justin McCurry about his new project in Tokyo, finding joy in crafting and life after sport
Made with Love by Tom Daley is an exhibition at the Parco Museum in Tokyo with specially selected pieces of his work.Made with Love by Tom Daley is an exhibition at the Parco Museum in Tokyo with specially selected pieces of his work.
Spectators were banned from all but a handful of venues, including the main stadium, while daily medal counts were accompanied by a running total of new Covid-19 infections in the Olympic village – the only neighbourhood in the city athletes were permitted to set foot in when they weren’t competing. “I think some people thought I didn’t care about the Olympics, that I was just knitting. Some people thought it was brave to be knitting in public, and some thought: ‘What the hell is he doing?’”now vastly outnumbers the sceptics.
Daley used knitting “as my way of being able to switch off from everything that was going on, being able to just focus on something that was right in front of me at that moment. That was quite powerful, so when I was photographed I didn’t really think about it because there was no one in the stands in Tokyo.The exhibition’s organisers have promised an “immersive experience, a journey through a range of emotions, heightened by the use of light and music”.
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