Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Harassment warning issued over Daley tweets

The Olympic poster boy and his partner Pete Waterfield were in with a chance of grabbing the host nation's first gold of the Games in the synchronised 10-metre platform event on Monday, but fluffed their fourth dive and wound up just outside the medals.Designer Clothes Wholesale

Police from the English county of Dorset said a 17-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communication.

"(He) has been issued with a harassment warning in connection to tweets to Olympic diver Tom Daley," said a police spokeswoman.

The teenager was released on bail while police investigate other communications on his Twitter account and he will return to the police station at a later date.

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Britain's chef de mission Andy Hunt said the tweets were "completely unreasonable and a threat" but said Daley was "unaffected".

Daley will compete in the individual 10-metre platform event starting on August 10.

"Everyone knows if you use social media extensively you get bad as well as good," Hunt told reporters.

"If you open the door people come through it as well as go out the other side and we have been very clear about that. We have put out a lot of guidelines and a lot of education about this."

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