14-year-old Tom Daley competes in Men's 10m Platform Final | Throwback Thursday

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Let's take a look back to the Men's 10m Platform at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing when 14-year-old Tom Daley from Great Britain gave his Olympic debut. Enjoy watching the full competition!
Did you know, Tom also went to the @Youth Olympic Games two years later in Singapore. Check out him and some of the other Singapore 2010 stars who went on to win Olympic medals in action - oly.ch/3gAaql6
What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know in the comments below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!
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[@Olympics]

What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know in the comments below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!

[@oscarchadwick6074]

Olympic Ellis Kipchoges 2016 marathon.

[@shantanupatil9062]

Just please upload all diving events of Beijing 2008

[@ArcheryAndDiving37]

Olympic the men’s archery from Beijing 2008 where Viktor Ruban won it

[@alibatch806]

All beijing 2008 videos

[@NyanyiC]

Steven Bradbury from Australia winning unexpectedly

[@sineadkearney1635]

whose here after he's just won Gold!

[@isabellec6784]

Meee

[@Sbi_life]

Mee

[@boyiyelcham2630]

Congratulations.A great athlete

[@luketattersdill2706]

Yep

[@silverpower6912]

omg me lol gahaha lit omg

[@letsgo8819]

You're probably here for Tom Daley. He's at 14:11 45:37 1:01:25 1:16:52 1:32:50

[@mztee8107]

Thanks!

[@cynthiazhang]

and 30:00 :D

[@newnumber2721]

And 4:55 He’s so cute

[@triarb5790]

I was here for Matthew Mitcham 🦈 but Tom was showing what was to come.

[@keishaaulia7545]

THANK YOU

[@cynthiazhang]

Who else is here after he won olympic gold? So proud! 👏Congratulations Tom

[@shutterbird13]

1:40:30 I'm a Tom Daley fan, but I think we should all bask in the glory that is Matthew Mitcham's round six dive. That was beautiful.

[@seoulnessie]

This and Bolt's world records were best best moments of the Beijing Olympics

[@JaggedBird]

@@seoulnessie don't forget Taylor's beautiful match in 2012 as well as bringing the sport to the women's Olympics! All three of these athletes are Olympic history

[@caronchan5232]

YES! I’m an Aussie and that was beautiful

[@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796]

That, and Jason Lezak’s amazing out-touch of Alain Bernard in the men’s 4x100 relay!

[@ursmue1937]

😛 Tom Daley, 14 Years 😂

[@DHU11]

I was like 8 at the time and had the biggest crush on him after watching this. I still do (but his current self, not 14 yo Tom lol)

[@kimiberger]

46:35 "I was giving it everything" love it

[@cemre7882]

imagine breaking a record but not even getting mentioned in the title OR the description... Respect Matthew Mitcham..

[@lawrencepatricio5776]

my thoughts also. I was searching for the full video on the highest single dive score in history by Mitcham. I almost missed the video while searching because of the title.

[@klavierchen0015]

Tom's jumps: 14:16 30:00 45:45 1:01:20 1:17:00 1:33:00

[@mztee8107]

Thank you.

[@naturalbby1722]

Can’t believe he was only freaking 14!! He barely made a splash!! What an amazing diver!!

[@ArcheryAndDiving37]

That was when Matthew Mitcham got 112.10 on his final dive amazing

[@ArcheryAndDiving37]

1:40:34 When Matthew Mitcham denied the clean sweep of China of the Diving Medals

[@suphaters]

I love this no commentary version of the event. How peaceful to watch without incessant commentary.

[@TheRaMan1981]

First Round: 9:43 🇨🇴 Juan Guillermo Uran 10:42 🇨🇺 Jose Antonio Guerra Oliva 11:49 🇩🇪 Patrick Hausding 13:01 🇲🇽 Rommel Pacheco 14:28 🇬🇧 Thomas Daley 15:46 🇺🇲 Thomas Finchum 16:43 🇦🇺 Mathew Helm 17:53 🇺🇲 David Boudia 19:11 🇷🇺 Gleb Galperin 20:14 🇨🇳 Zhou Luxin 21:24 🇦🇺 Matthew Mitcham 22:28 🇨🇳 Huo Liang Second Round: 25:22 🇨🇴 26:35 🇨🇺 27:42 🇩🇪 28:53 🇲🇽 29:57 🇬🇧 31:07 🇺🇲 32:27 🇦🇺 33:42 🇺🇲 34:36 🇷🇺 36:00 🇨🇳 37:10 🇦🇺 38:20 🇨🇳 Third Round: 40:49 🇨🇴 42:21 🇨🇺 43:14 🇩🇪 44:29 🇲🇽 45:43 🇬🇧 46:49 🇺🇲 48:02 🇦🇺 49:20 🇺🇲 50:27 🇷🇺 51:30 🇨🇳 53:01 🇦🇺 54:00 🇨🇳 Fourth Round: 57:05 🇨🇴 58:00 🇨🇺 59:29 🇩🇪 1:00:35 🇲🇽 1:01:23 🇬🇧 1:02:38 🇺🇲 1:03:46 🇦🇺 1:04:58 🇺🇲 1:06:01 🇷🇺 1:07:11 🇨🇳 1:08:21 🇦🇺 1:09:30 🇨🇳 Fifth Round: 1:12:11 🇨🇴 1:13:27 🇨🇺 1:14:43 🇩🇪 1:15:51 🇲🇽 1:17:04 🇬🇧 1:18:15 🇺🇲 1:19:21 🇦🇺 1:20:35 🇺🇲 1:21:31 🇷🇺 1:22:48 🇨🇳 1:23:42 🇦🇺 1:25:18 🇨🇳 Sixth Round: 1:28:21 🇨🇴 1:29:28 🇨🇺 1:30:41 🇩🇪 1:31:52 🇲🇽 1:33:02 🇬🇧 1:34:13 🇺🇲 1:35:24 🇦🇺 1:36:41 🇺🇲 1:37:43 🇷🇺 1:38:46 🇨🇳 1:40:12 🇦🇺 1:41:57 🇨🇳

[@ollie9942]

Ledgendary person

[@hollyheaphy1370]

Who won

[@happysleepygrumpy]

Despite being such an overachiever....he is so humble...I mean..olympics at 14 ....c'mon

[@user-be3di8ws4e]

He was very young. It is very cute as if nervous. He has been a great diver since childhood. I always cheering.

[@jjfarr72]

I may be a Brit, but I was so pleased for Matt Mitcham when he won this. I had been a fan of his for years. To truly understand the emotion behind his win, read his autobiography, it really shows the lows he had reached before coming back to the sport and reaching this amazing achievement. I was fortunate enough to be a volunteer poolside for the diving at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where I got to meet Matt and his coach. It was a genuine honour and pleasure. Two of the nicest people on the planet, let alone in diving.

[@VictorYong36]

Matt was a worthy winner with Tom Daley 7th

[@yjw1201]

@@VictorYong36 love those two too!

[@rozzer61]

09:42 it starts

[@orlando_neves]

TANKS YOU

[@mykindoflove1900]

I would have entitled this video "Matthew Mitcham's masterpiece". Chinese divers, until this competition, had won every other final at Beijing and their goal was to have all gold medals. Only Matthew, on the last day of competitions, could beat them.

[@thevillageofnod]

Maybe this is why China is open and the US is not

[@riquebusta8652]

Colleen Jennings Matthew Mitcham is from Australia 😭

[@perjus]

Or Matthew Mitcham gets royal flush on the river.

[@yjw1201]

Matthew reminded me of Greg Louganis!

[@amandawolf5513]

Now in Tokyo 2020, China got a gold medal in every diving competition again, except for men's 10 meters synchronised divin, which was taken by Matty Lee and Tom Daley himself, crazy. Not at the last day and by breaking a record, but still a great a achivement by these two.

[@KatieLHall-fy1hw]

Man, I would be so honored to be an Olympian, for any event! Good for him!

[@yiseng4602]

Mitcham's final dive was just extraordinary and beyond belief but it won him the gold.

[@santakucing]

12 years later, I still scream "YASS QWEEN YASS!!!" when Matthew Mitcham did it.

[@solfowler3489]

Everyone waiting: Divers: "Splosh" Everyone : wayyyyyy!!!!

[@francisnguyen6349]

Incredible 14 Years Old Tom Daley is an English British Diver in Men's 10m Platform Final.

[@joebleasdale5557]

“I’m just going to gain experience!” 😂😂😂

[@szymanowski7]

"experience"

[@shyok0109]

Timestamp??

[@wrstonel2049]

@@shyok0109 idk

[@victoralvarez3042]

1:16 I really want to know what young Tom Daley was listening to in this shot

[@sphyr4973]

Well, Lady Gaga's The Fame came out during the 2008 olympic games, so...

[@Jayqo]

Barbie girl

[@lisamichel6548]

Possibly the Vanga Boys.

[@szymanowski7]

Britney Spears - Toxic

[@lockergr]

Lady Gaga is a satanist. .

[@joeevans6030]

I don’t like how there is no commentary over it though. It would be great if there was... anyway great throwback and amazing how Tom Daley was only 14. Wow!!

[@kenb3552]

The story here is Matthew Mitcham's round six dive. One of the best ever.

[@clairemacdougall8325]

And now he’s married with a son! Love you Tom!

[@classicerynn8452]

Awww lil Tom (UK) and lil Thomas (US) were both so adorable!

[@mrb8993]

creepy

[@vivac995]

wow i just know now that 14 yo can competed in olympic, i thought it was legal when they're like 18 or more. cant imagine how its feel to competed there especially when ur only 14

[@lsukma5559]

Now I'm here after his Gold 🏅 in Olympic Tokyo

[@francescaroat2076]

Olympics are forever! The atmosphere is really unique and amazing! How many happy people there are in these competitions!

[@Victor_Dissescou]

14:33, 30:07, 45:34, 1:01:40, 1:17:05, 1:33:10, btw for those who want to get to tom daley

[@nepaluniverse8112]

You came here for 14:16

[@orlg21]

14 years old boy is good!

[@felixdom9693]

Tom daley the only 14 y.o incredible diver there! Ma boy doing so great so young so briliant

[@francisp8633]

Thank you for uploading this. Have been waiting for years. Now please upload 2016 Gymnastics men's floor exercise final. Have also been waiting for years.

[@goldcoastbloke1330]

I watched this Final in Beijing 2008! Tom was absolutely brilliant👏 Great efforts too for Cao Yuan, congrats for getting the Gold👏🥇👋

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

Oh nostalgia about Beijing Olympic Games. Wish I could go back to 2008

[@maggietheprincesscastle9776]

Zhou Luxin and Matthew Mitcham did so great. I could have sworn Luxin would win after seeing just his first dive (round 1 I mean) which excelled in form and elegance even to an unexperienced eye like mine. But props for Mitcham for pulling off that final dive, just an incredible turn of events

[@thomasm7108]

I've wanted this for so long thank you so much!!!!!

[@oliveranderson7264]

This venue was so beautiful wow

[@DP52879]

Love Daley 🤗

[@Reibimasu]

Boudia, Hausding, Pacheco and Daley

[@afniii7514]

irony how in the future, pacheco and hausdings are pretty successful in springboard sector rather than platform

[@aarons745]

And how’s he’s just won an Olympic gold 13 years later

[@MrBeevee5]

The slow motion shots are where you really appreciate the beauty in these dives.

[@keishaaulia7545]

I'm 14 and is doing nothing all day except doin my homework be like 🙂

[@hanksmusic8114]

1:08 they’re really playing the hamster dance song lol

[@Mia-sb1bb]

he was just a babyyyy omg 🥺

[@mohit9815]

I watch their evey vlog and Robbie is so cute ❤️

[@duaneschott6052]

Merry Christmas Tom🎄❤

[@JTRAIN]

That last dive from Matthew Mitcham was insane

[@hollyheaphy1370]

Tom looks so young here

[@silviokunst7630]

Thank you so MUCH !!!! Please upload the other 3 Beijing WOMEN´S competitions: 10m platform synchronized, 3m Springboard AND 3m Springboard synchronized . Thank you again !

[@zannikarkkis9181]

Good Silvio, I want too !

[@sonnjahenie3213]

yesssssssssssssssss

[@hermesblumm1243]

Give us these 2008 extraordinary Diving please !

[@valkiriasalmmatti5638]

Very nice suggestion. I agree. Super 2008 diving !

[@anibalfontes7996]

YES!!!!!! Give us all !!! Can´t wait to watch !!!

[@francescaroat2076]

What Matthew Mitcham has done here is pure legend! Wow!

[@lachysims6327]

could not care less about Tom, this was Matthew Mitcham's moment, one of my favourite olympic memories

[@ckartchnerr]

Wow he is insane. I hope I could someday get to his level

[@2010hotmale2010]

OMG I LOVE THE MASCOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!

[@qwerqueti8478]

The mascots tho 😂😍

[@addygrace3911]

2008... I was just born

[@estherreeves8432]

I wish this had the announcers with it. They would explain the dives and scores.

[@gufsgrrrl19]

Yes! I didn't understand why they scored some of them the way they did. Itd be nice to know lol.

[@s_56564]

@@gufsgrrrl19 Watching the first round of this, I too am confused. The scores are way too clustered in the 8.5s. In my honest opinion as an ex-diver, nearly all the first 6 or 7 dives should have been 7.0 to 8.0 averages. I suspect I tried watching this before and gave up out of a desire to yell at the judges. =X

[@gufsgrrrl19]

@@s_56564 I, too, gave up lol. I'm not a diver/former diver, so sometimes it's confusing because some dives I think look great get scored badly, and others I thought were bad were scored well. 🤷‍♀️

[@s_56564]

@@gufsgrrrl19 Yeah, the scoring was pretty rubbish and inconsistent. Feels like the judges are basing their scores off splash primarily. There are literally so many other things that matter that I think even untrained viewers can see. Don't blame you at all for being frustrated!

[@gufsgrrrl19]

@@s_56564 I'm glad it's not just me. I thought I was crazy, and was thinking, "man, if I thought that was good, and they thought it was bad, maybe I shouldn't be watching" lol

[@dawnegan3984]

Tom is so young here going Ing away training and comps

[@jellebakker8193]

There is a vid in your ads

[@ramdaniofficial12]

And now in olimpic tokyo 2020 Gold medal..

[@boblowney]

how young can you be to compete as an adult in the olympics? Tom looks about 8! Great diving of course.

[@BossySwan]

Queen since day 1

[@joseochoa4152]

what a comeback from the Australian!

[@francescaroat2076]

Tom Daily is really a great and amazing diver!

[@myj7samsungj783]

Cutie tommie😊

[@carsynagen3525]

Matthew Mitcham really clinched it out in that last round. the door was open and he seized the moment. Incredible!

[@brontehaynes3155]

Me at 14: trying to balance the light switch

[@fififeather2128]

Tom beats the rest, he’s marvellous.

[@sourabh8085]

Impressive tom✌✌✌

[@alexandragisellechavez3564]

Ohhhhhhhh he is so young here...!!!

[@Kernel15]

Oh my god I never expected Enya to be playing. Someone has awesome taste in music :D

[@michaelharperamericannight2891]

When was that in the video?

[@MatthewCuyugan]

Timestamp?

[@paulojrneto]

Why highlight Tom Daley when Matthew Mitcham was the true hero of this event? He beat the megafavourite Chinese in Beijing!

[@miriamsheppard6162]

yeah the title is a bit bullshit

[@mkd0452]

Because Tom Daley was a 14 year old competing in the Olympics. At that age most people are doing casual sport or playing video games.

[@magnumbrahms5339]

​@@mkd0452 yeah but unlike Ledecky who won gold at age 15 beating the champ at home soil, little Tom did not. Nothing against the kid though its just Mats accomplishment should be more praised imo.

[@Letissiaskatetapes24]

This is like the ONLY thing of importance that Matheww Mitcham won. The very next year at the age of 15 Tom beat him for the World Title and in 2010 for Commonwealth gold. Since then Tom gained a Bronze in 10m Platform in London 2012 in his home country and and another Bronze in Rio 2016 in the 10m Synchro event. He's Mutilple times European, British National, World & Commonwealth Gold medalist since 2008. He's only missing Olympic Gold. Whether or not Tom wins gold in the future as he was due to compete this summer in Tokyo before Covid. Tom will go down as one of the most decorated 10m Platform Divers of all time. His longevity at the Top and ability to beat the Chinese is rare. Mathew Mitcham can't say that.

[@josephflynn9793]

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Add More Men Diving from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. It is impossible to find anywhere .... THANKS SO MUCH.....

[@orlando_neves]

1:23, ME ACORDÉ DE RICARDO OFARRIL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aliyamaritza1944]

cute daley🤩🤩

[@clayhacklaid]

ROMMEL PACHECO TE EXTRAÑO TANTO

[@寿司食べたいな]

wow Mitcham is phenomenal.

[@riccardosiracusa7014]

Meraviglioso

[@francisheperi4180]

Why didn't Zhou go for the more difficult dive (3.8)? It was well within his capability.

[@HuyNguyen-cp4pr]

Tom. Daley is so so cute

[@Bill-fe1nb]

26:11 Does Anbody know who is the woman in red T shirt standing by pillar?

[@mrpepero]

1:16:52 AMAZING

[@jacksontutt3439]

Why on earth was 109c only a 3.5 difficulty back then?

[@lockergr]

When is he on? Can't watch the whole thing. EDIT: He's on about 14 minutes in guys.

[@mateusoliveira-cs4zo]

Desde novo ele tem esse toc das mãos fica passando as mãos no corpo no rosto na perna

[@billybob6604]

awesome

[@iride4425]

Matthew Mitcham's masterpiece!!

[@HughmCcauig]

TOM IS 14!!!!

[@lumpybird554]

I'm thirteen and do diving. I can hardly do a somersault off 1 meter without flopping hard

[@granthiggins9821]

What’s ur list like now

[@Thenormalguy101]

gotta love the naruto sound track 1:33:29

[@Iamjoyamonroe25]

Thomas was so cute back then there hehehe

[@crabbyrooooo]

14:12 tom goes then.

[@ashhhyep]

Wait so why is no one here

[@bkes8196]

Anybody missed the commentators?

[@kusariorait]

Women's volleyball Olympic 2004 Final China vs Russia Please

[@mobius3001]

im here for matthew.

[@luchen9640]

I see two kids among the adults.