Tom Daley finally ending his wait for gold was made sweeter as his husband and mom reacted adorably at home

• Tom Daley became an overnight sensation as a British Olympian in 2008.
• He won bronze at the 2012 Games, and again in 2016. When he won gold Tuesday, there were tears.
• We're not crying. You're crying.

The end of Tom Daley's wait for an elusive Olympic gold medal was made sweeter as his husband and mom reacted adorably at home.

The British diver became an overnight sensation when he qualified for the Beijing Games in 2008, aged 14.

He won back-to-back bronze medals at the 2012 Games in London, and the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, but as a gold medalist in the European Championships and World Championships through the years, he longed for the same color medal at the Olympics.

On Tuesday, at the Tokyo Games, his wait was over as the 27-year-old - alongside teammate Matty Lee - nailed the men's synchronized 10-meter diving event.

The pair dived impeccably throughout the event, topping the leaderboard after four dives, and then staying there to the end with a total score of 471.81 - edging China's Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen.

Long motivated by his pursuit of the gold, Daley's Olympic journey had previously been one of narrow misses, earning bronze medals. Away from sport, tragedy hit when his father Robert, died aged 40 of cancer in 2011.

Growing up, he was bullied out of one school, as The Guardian's writer Donald McRae reported.

But never wavering from his desire to be an Olympic champion, Daley's determination has for years engulfed Britain.

And there was a clear and widespread emotional outpouring when the athlete had finally achieved what he had set out to do since he was a child.

He had won.

With British flags stuck to the wall behind them, his mother Debbie, and Daley's husband, Dustin Lance Black, could not hold back their joy as they celebrated raucously.

Watch them react right here:

Debbie and Dustin were not the only ones to react with such emotion, as Daley himself could be seen weeping while wearing a coronavirus mask, when he was later awarded with that long-awaited gold medal.

And, as Insider reported at the time, a TV reporter for the BBC called Nick Hope could be heard crying live on air.

Daley returns for the individual men's 10-meter platform dive in a preliminary round that begins Friday at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Japan.