Mother of intervention

RIO DE JANEIRO: British diver Daniel Goodfellow’s mum has roasted the UK press for snubbing her son on front pages in favour of heart-throb diving partner Tom Daley

RIO DE JANEIRO: British diver Daniel Goodfellow’s mum has roasted the UK press for snubbing her son on front pages in favour of heart-throb diving partner Tom Daley after the duo won bronze together in the Rio Games 10m synchronised event. The Times and The Daily Telegraph featured Daley giving the thumbs-up with Goodfellow nowhere to be seen, while the back-pages of other papers did likewise. Sharon Goodfellow told the BBC’s website she was “very surprised” by the snub and tweeted: “Just done my first bit of media bashing. How insensitive!” Subsequent editions of some papers were tweaked to give more equal treatment.

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