Tom Daley wants Olympics to ban countries with death penalty for gay people
Gay diver Tom Daley wants to ban countries from competing in the Olympics if they have the death penalty for gay people.The British athlete, who won gold in the men’s 10-meter synchronized platform at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said it would be his “mission” to implement such a ban.“I think it’s really important to try and create change, rather than just highlighting or shining a light on those things,” Dailey said last week at the 2021 Attitude Awards, where he was honored with accepting the Sport Award, NBC News reports.“I want to make it my mission over the next — well, hopefully before the Paris Olympics in 2024 — to make it so that the countries [where it’s] punishable by death for LGBT people are not allowed to compete at the Olympic