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Tom Daley's walking away from the Paris Olympics with two mementos -- a silver medal ... and a newly hand-knit sweater!!!

The British diver had been seen repeatedly stitching together a red, white and blue garment in the days after he and his diving partner, Noah Williams, finished in second place in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform ... and on Wednesday, he revealed the project has finally been finished.

On the front, Daley showed he stitched the words "Paris 2024" with an image of the Eiffel Tower. On the back, he revealed "Daley" was crocheted in white lettering.

The Paris Olympics are trending BIG in porn ... because a wave of horny people are now scouring the internet for adult videos related to the Summer Games -- reaching Gold Medal level views.

A rep for Pornhub tells TMZ ... the site is seeing a huge surge in searches for the term "Olympics," up 4,876% since the start of the games -- a grower and a shower total over the last few days.

The term "athlete" is also up 505% ... even though no one competing in the Paris Olympics is actually featured in pornos -- so that search ain't taking you to any NSFW Simone Biles or Noah Lyles content.

After Jason Kelce beat an Olympian in an arm wrestling match over the weekend, a legend in the game now wants the former NFL star to pick on someone his own size ... and square off with him next!!

Devon Larratt -- who's dominated arm wrestling circuits for decades -- tells TMZ Sports ... he wants a piece of Kelce following the ex-Philadelphia Eagles center's now-famous run-in with rugby star Nicole Heavirland.

Larratt says Kelce -- at 250ish pounds -- is right in his weight class ... and based on how he performed on a table in Paris, he thinks a test of strength between the two athletes would now make for a good show.

Jonathan Majors is down in the dumps, Bill Maher is making a bold prediction and Simone Biles is rubbing salt in a wound ... all this on today's TMZ TV Hot Takes.

First up on "TMZ Live," Harvey and Charles explained why Jonathan is feeling heartbroken over Robert Downey Jr.'s upcoming Marvel movies.

Aboriginal Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman was in her early 20s when she sprinted her way to the top of the leaderboard at the Summer Atlanta Olympics back in 1996 -- and making a triumphant return four years later to the 2000 Summer games in Sydney.

Freeman specialized in the 400 meter event with a personal best of 48.63 seconds, which to this day still ranks her as the eighth fastest woman of all time. And at the 2000 Olympics, she took the crown for her 400 meter specialty and lit the Olympic Flame!

Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark ain't the only WNBA rookies lookin' hot in swimsuits on their breaks from game action ... Kamilla Cardoso just showed off her killer bod while on vacay -- and she looks gooooood!!!

The Chicago Sky center popped into a tiny, pink bikini and hopped onto a boat to enjoy what's left of the WNBA's 2024 Paris Olympics pause ... and it ain't hard to see, she's enjoyin' the R&R.

In a series of photos she dumped on her Instagram page, the Brazilian hooper was all smiles as she cruised through the open waters ... making sure her followers got a great glimpse of her sparkly thong swimwear.

50 Cent says his appearance at the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show almost didn't happen ... suggesting it was because Jay-Z tried turning his company Roc Nation into Block Nation.

In his new cover story with The Hollywood Reporter ... 50 claims Roc Nation attempted to keep him off the Emmy Award-winning spectacle alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.

In fact, 50 says Em turned renegade and threatened to remove himself if 50 got banned ... "Eminem wouldn’t do it without me," he recalled to the outlet.

History has been made ('cause surely this has never happened before) ... a young soccer fan completely blew off Rihanna, asking the superstar singer to TAKE a photo of him with Christian Pulisic, instead of including RiRi in the pic!

Talk about something the young guy will later regret. 😆

The unintended snub happened over the weekend at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx ... where AC Milan played an international friendly  against Manchester City.

Hollywood has fled to Paris to support the star athletes of Team USA! Check out A-listers like John Legend and Chrissy Teigen who selfied-up with Snoop Dogg!

The Philadelphia Police Dept. tells TMZ Sports ... it is aware of the incident and has launched an investigation.

"We are asking the victim and anyone who may have knowledge of the incident to come forward," the PPD added.

A New York Yankees fan got so upset with a guy outside of the Pinstripes' game in Philadelphia on Tuesday night ... he unleashed a violent smack that appeared to do some serious damage.

The heated interaction all went down at some point either during or after the Yanks' 7-6 extra-innings win over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

It's unclear exactly how the altercation started, but you can see in video from just outside the stadium, an Aaron Judge supporter got right in the face of a man who was wearing a black shirt and red shorts.

Elon Musk's talking tough once again ... accepting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's invitation to brawl -- one year after he vowed he'd fight Mark Zuckerberg.

President Maduro called out Musk on national television this morning ... challenging Musk to fisticuffs in a bizarre rant where he told Elon anyone who came up against him "dries up."

You should watch the video for yourself ... but, ultimately Maduro's making it clear -- EM only needs to name a time and place for the brawl, and Maduro will come ready to kick his ass.

11:07 AM PT -- Seems Simone Biles was, indeed, talking about MyKayla Skinner with her post on X ... Jordan Chiles just shared a snap of a phone that appeared to show Skinner has blocked the gymnastics superstar on Instagram.

Simone Biles says she's been blocked on social media -- and while she didn't name any names ... just about everyone thinks MyKayla Skinner's the one who put the G.O.A.T. on mute.

Biles informed her 1.7 million followers on X of the block on Wednesday afternoon with a cheeky four-word post -- "oop I’ve been blocked."

Along with the sentence, the superstar gymnast added three emojis that all suggested she didn't mind it one bit.

Joe Giudice and Antonio Sabato Jr. will fight this December ... and the guy charged with maintaining order in the ring?? WWE legend and Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle!

"Hey, this is Kurt Angle, I just signed on with Official Celebrity Boxing to referee in The Battle of the Italian TV Stars, Antonio Sabato Jr. and Joe Giudice in the Bahamas December 7," the WWE Hall of Famer said, making the big announcement.

Celebs fighting has become all the rage over the last few years, but CB is the OG ... promoting fights between everyone from Lamar Odom and Aaron Carter to Tonya Harding and Paula Jones.

Tennessee Titans star Jeffery Simmons is apologizing for goin' off on a radio host this week ... issuing a mea culpa for calling the guy a "p****" while he was in the middle of his show.

In case you missed it, Buck Reising was recording an episode of "The Buck Reising Show" on Tuesday at Titans training camp ... when Simmons, a two-time Pro Bowl defensive end, approached him and shouted out some not-so-nice words.

The spat was all captured on video ... and it's clear Simmons was upset over something Reising had said on social media.

Richard Simmons’ family is fuming over Pauly Shore trying to cast doubt on the authenticity of the late fitness guru's most recent posts ... and they're coming out swinging.

RS' team dropped a statement from his brother Lenny on X Wednesday -- clearing things up, writing ... "Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message."

Lenny added Richard would usually show his posts to him and his wife Cathy before they went live. So they’re saying it was definitely Richard behind those messages ... despite Pauly recently saying he wasn't so sure.

U.S. triathlete Seth Rider admitted that in order to prepare his body for the dirty Seine River at the 2024 Olympics ... he actually spent weeks not washing his hands.

For real.

Rider explained his super gross unique strategy to The Athletic recently, saying that he believed by exposing his body to smaller amounts of E. coli at home ... he could prepare himself for Paris' body of water that's notorious for its high levels of bacteria.