Inside Tom Daley’s Dior Tote Bag

I have broken my hand, I've torn my tricep,

I've hit my head on the board twice.

Diving's really nice. [laughs]

Hi, British Vogue, I'm Tom Daley,

and this is What's in My Bag.

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So we have here a lovely little Dior bag and it is stunning.

Okay, first things first.

I know this looks really random

and you're probably thinking of me

going around washing cars, but this is something that I use

for diving every single day,

because when we're spinning around,

we need to make sure that we're not wet.

Because if we're wet, we're slippery,

and the G-Force when we're spinning around,

will pull us out of our dive and we'll crash land.

We don't need any belly flops in the Olympics.

I also got this tie-dyed as a little pride flag

because I think it's really important

as an out athlete to be visible.

I recently competed in Qatar,

out at the World Championships,

where it's illegal to exist there, I guess in certain ways.

And I think it's important to show up, be visible,

and be proud to be who you are,

as well as doing the best that you can in the pool.

That's what this little bad boy does for me.

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Oh gosh, there's so many things in here.

Tape, we hit the water when we're diving at 35 miles an hour

and it's the height of two double decker buses

and half a car piled on top of each other.

So the impact is pretty intense.

I tend to tape up my thumb

and my wrist just to be able to protect my joints

when I hit the water.

I have had so many injuries when it comes to diving.

I have broken my hand, I tore my tricep.

I've hit my head on the board twice.

Diving's really nice. [laughs]

Diving is quite the difficult thing.

I've gone from being the youngest back in 2008

to now being the granddad of the team.

I have to treat my body very differently

to how I did when I was training, when I was younger.

It's hard to say if this is gonna be my last Olympics,

because if you had asked me in Tokyo,

I probably would've been like, Yeah, that was my last one.

Yet, here I am going again.

And the next Olympic games after Paris will be in LA,

which is now where I live.

I think I might be a little bit like, you know, too old.

This is a hundred percent sour, tart cherry juice.

Essentially it's just filled with antioxidants

and it helps with sleep and recovery.

This is something that's really changed the game for me.

I used to struggle with sleep a lot,

and I used to really kinda get stressed

going into competitions and these just really helped.

So I like to have one of these before bed.

I'll dive back into the bag.

I of course, have some yarn on me at all times.

Also, my knitting needles,

which come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.

I mean, I've got some six and a half millimeters here,

and I've also got some 15 millimeter circular needles.

So for all my knitting fans out there,

circular needles are a game changer.

Knitting for me became my like therapy.

For so much of my day

is spent stressing about what dives I'm gonna be doing,

what my competitions are gonna be like,

how am I going to be to balance

looking after our little ones and cooking them dinner,

and then I've got to go to training

and all these different things.

This is the one thing that allows me

to literally switch off,

and I can just sit down in a coffee shop

and knit for hours on end, honestly.

There's something that's so satisfying to me

about just having that rhythm

and that little like click clack of the knitting needles.

There is not a day that goes by where I don't knit.

One of my favorite pieces of knitwear that I think,

you know, it pretty much went viral,

the JW Anderson patchwork cardigan,

and they eventually released a pattern

to be able to make it yourself.

So I did make one.

That's something really special as well,

of being able to see something and make it.

It's also taught me a lot

that I can use in my everyday life,

because sometimes if you make a mistake

and you have to start again,

you're not starting from scratch,

you're starting from experience.

So I've been able to use that mentality

going into diving as well.

What have we got in here next?

I've got some US dollars and some pounds and my passport.

I'm traveling nonstop,

and you can see it's pretty well loved.

I've got all of these stickers over them.

I don't even know what this is.

A baggage receipt? Okay.

It's a very, very full passport actually.

I've got so many different visas and stamps.

I've got one of those extra large passports as well

that has all of the extra pages, which is good.

During the Olympics, they had a Tokyo 2020 stamp,

which I think is pretty cool.

Oh no, the bag's flying everywhere.

Right, a water bottle is key for me,

'cause you've gotta stay hydrated.

This is just my comfy travel jumper,

but it's also from the very first things that I did

with Made With Love, my little knitting situation,

and it's just like a cute little red heart.

It's got knit stitches.

What else we got?

Oh yes, a dummy.

I find these everywhere.

In the bottom of the bags,

turn any corner in the house

and there'll be like a dummy on the floor.

I have one in my bag at all times,

'cause you never know

when you're gonna need one in an emergency.

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Uh-huh.

I'm the most forgetful person in the world

and I lose things all the time.

And this time I traveled over without my AirPods

and I had to use these wired ones.

I want to put a camera in my bag

to see how they end up like this.

And when I say I'm forgetful,

I left my laptop in California

and I also lost my phone.

Today we're going screen free.

Oh, okay.

Having just come back from a competition,

I have got a couple of medals from the last competition

that I did, which was in Berlin.

It was a gold in the team event

and a gold in the 10 meter synchro.

So they just happen to be in my bag,

and I promise I don't have them in there all the time.

I've always got some gum in my bag.

You never know

if you're gonna have like a onion bhaji for lunch,

and then a travel adapter.

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The contents of my bag, I feel like are quite strange,

like it has such an array of different things,

going from like a chamois that you might use on a car,

but I use to dive, to knitting needles and yarn.

This pile is very me.

This is my life on a table. [upbeat instrumental music]

Well, thank you for watching.

That was what was in my bag, I hope you enjoyed.