Dan Goodfellow 'Cropped Out' Of Front Pages With Tom Daley After Winning Rio Olympics 2016 Bronze
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If there’s one Olympic sport that requires two people to contribute equally to the performance then it’s synchronised diving.
Yet Team GB Olympic medallist Dan Goodfellow has been reduced to a footnote on two national newspaper front pages after winning bronze with Tom Daley with a dramatic last dive.
Here’s the pair - who have only been training together since October last year - doing their incredible thing.
Here are Daley and Goodfellow waiting anxiously too see if their final effort was enough to secure a podium place.
Here they are celebrating, falling in to the pool while hugging each other.
Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow with the best Rio celebration so far pic.twitter.com/Tgd4xA9Ld0
— Graeme Demianyk (@GraemeDemianyk) August 8, 2016
And here they are medalled up.
Inseparable, you might say. Well, not quite.
Here’s the Daily Mail.
And here’s The Daily Telegraph.
Of course, Tom Daley is a household name. An Olympic star and world champion by his teens, who has a prime-time Saturday night TV show and millions of social media followers to his name.
And newspapers have late deadlines to meet: the same picture from earlier in the night was used by both in their first editions. But many pointed out that there wasn’t even a mention of the 19-year-old from Cambridge, much less a picture, and was, in other headlines, referred to as just Daley’s “synchronised partner”.
This is what Twitter had to say.
Well done on medal Tom Daley and Synchronised Partner. Incredible foresight by Mr and Mrs Partner in choice of son's first name.
— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) August 8, 2016
Congrats to Tom Daley (and his synchro partner Dan Goodfellow, who seems to be getting cropped out of the story): pic.twitter.com/DEizCZT14s
— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) August 8, 2016
The papers that cropped out Dan Goodfellow or mentioned "Tom Daley's partner" with his bronze. They're both equally deserving. It's synchro!
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) August 8, 2016
It's a brilliant achievement by Tom Daley to win a solo medal in a synchronised event. pic.twitter.com/INTMLhx2Yc
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) August 8, 2016
More importantly, Dan Goodfellow’s mum seemed annoyed too.
@suttonnick I am very surprised by this photo. Is it for real? I am Dan's mum
— Sharon Goodfellow (@goodfellowshar1) August 8, 2016
But she appeared reassured that there was plenty of coverage of her Olympian son on the inside pages.
Thank you for all the messages. I have still hundreds to go through. Looks like there will be lots in papers today!
— Sharon Goodfellow (@goodfellowshar1) August 9, 2016
In fact, elsewhere, the pair rightly shared the spotlight.
Tuesday's Metro Page 1: "POLICE BLITZ PARTY BOATS"@suttonnick@bbcpapers#tomorrowspaperstoday@skypapers#TomDaleypic.twitter.com/AReed32ZD1
— Metro Newspaper UK (@MetroUKNews) August 8, 2016
Tuesday's Telegraph Rio 2016:
That moment
when you find out you’ve won an Olympic medal#tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/RQPE8CehHf— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 8, 2016
Tuesday's Guardian front page:
Double victory leaves Corbyn ‘unassailable’#tomorrowspaperstoday#bbcpaperspic.twitter.com/laY0W9bw8D— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 8, 2016
Leading @HuffPostUK overnight: everyone loves @TomDaley1994 and @danngoodfellow's reaction https://t.co/mGPAu52eH9pic.twitter.com/lAaWIN8hhD
— Huffington Post UK (@HuffPostUK) August 8, 2016
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost UK and has been updated.