Tom Daley Unwittingly Steals Spotlight From Equally Adept, Equally Speedoed Daniel Goodfellow

From: Queerty

Few things could quash the unimaginable high of winning your first-ever Olympic medal — but being meticulously cropped out of media coverage and inadvertently surrendering all the attention to your diving partner would certainly qualify as one of them.

That’s the very odd plight facing Great Britain’s Daniel Goodfellow today — after winning a bronze medal alongside media favorite Tom Daley in the men’s synchronized 10m platform event on Monday evening.

Photo editors at The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and The Daily Express all-too eagerly clicked into the Tools section to effectively crop the handsome athlete out of the picture, while writers vaguely referred to Goodfellow as Daley’s “synchronized partner” as duly noted by The Media Blog and various flummoxed Twitterers:

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

Tuesday's Daily Express back page:

Daley leaves it late#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers #diving #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/395mKATxvi

— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 8, 2016

Come on papers two people trained hard to win that medal. Poor form #Rio2016 #diving #bronze https://t.co/wHI0vUhcn7

— Rogan Thomson (@roganthomson) August 8, 2016

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Congratulations are in order - BUT Imagine if your parents named you 'synchronised partner' I'd be so pissed 🙄 pic.twitter.com/D210xzEsVL

— Jeanette Kwakye (@JNETTEKWAKYE) August 8, 2016

As The Guardian reports, the Times‘ sports editor blamed the oversight on tight deadlines and promised to rectify the misstep in later editions of the paper. But is it enough to satisfy Gabby?

Come on @thetimes you can do better than this, won't take long to change 'synchronised partner' to Dan Goodfellow. https://t.co/seGtNSBSOU

— Gabby Logan (@GabbyLogan) August 8, 2016

@GabbyLogan plus I've seen a lot of tv interviews before and after with Tom but a lot fewer with Dan. Do papers deserve different treatment?

— ALEX KAY-JELSKI (@AlexKJTimes) August 8, 2016

Then there’s mom. Goodfellow’s mother is far from pleased and has taken to Twitter to express her consternation:

@suttonnick I am very surprised by this photo. Is it for real? I am Dan's mum

— Sharon Goodfellow (@goodfellowshar1) August 8, 2016