Tom Daley and his partner Matty Lee have won gold in diving's 10-metre synchronised platform event at the Tokyo Olympics.
The duo finished with 471.81 points having never dropped out of the top two and took the Olympic title 1.23 points ahead of China, with the Russian Olympic Committee third.
It is Daley's third Olympic medal after he won bronze at the London and Rio Games. But it's his first Olympic gold at what are his fourth Games.
"It's kind of unbelievable," he said afterwards. "I've dreamt, as has Matty, since I started diving 20 years ago for this moment of becoming an Olympic champion.
"To take it to my fourth Olympic Games when I think a lot of people would have not considered it to be my peak Olympic Games, I thought I was going to win an Olympic gold medal in Rio and that turned out the complete opposite by a long shot.
"It was my husband [Dustin Lance Black] who said to me my story wasn't finished and that my son or child, we didn't know at the time, needed to be there to watch me win an Olympic gold medal.
"The fact that I can say my son watched me become Olympic champion, albeit on TV and they couldn't be here, is such a great feeling.
"To be able to do it with your best mate as well and to share that moment. At the back of the podium when you're by yourself, it's all internalised, but when you have someone that's done it with you, you don't feel bad about saying 'oh my goodness, we just bloody did amazing!'
"I will carry on but I will definitely take a break. There are some beverages with my name on it to celebrate with my husband and family."
Lee added: "In 2018 I moved my whole life to London from Leeds, I had nothing really in London.
"Our aim was to get an Olympic medal and for it to go the way we wanted it to is awesome.
"I owe a lot to Tom because he has taught me a lot."
Daley said this was the first Games he had come into believing they were the ones to beat.
"I mean to finally have this gold medal around my neck after so many - I mean I've been diving now for 20 years and this is my fourth Olympic Games and lots of people probably would have counted me out of this Olympics being the older person but I'm in the best shape physically and mentally," Daley told the BBC.
"With the support of Matty coming into this competition and the way that we've been preparing, I think we've just had that unstoppable mentality this year and this is the first year that I've ever been able to think like that - that we are the ones to beat.
"I still honestly can't believe what's happening and I honestly didn't think I would get there in the first place, but here we are."
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It was Team GB's third gold in a matter of hours after wins for swimmer Adam Peaty and then Tom Pidcock in the cross-country mountain bike race.
Alex Yee also earned a silver medal in the triathlon.
The 22-year-old from Lewisham, south London, moved into the lead during the run but could not prevent Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt from taking gold.
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