Tom Daley reveals he IS concentrating on a return to diving for the Paris Olympics in 2024

Tom Daley has introduced he’s returning to diving after a two-year break and can bid for a spot at subsequent summer season’s Olympics in Paris.

The 29-year-old has not competed for the reason that Tokyo Video games in 2021, when he gained gold within the synchronised 10-metre platform and bronze in his particular person occasion.

However Daley has now determined he needs to go to his fifth Olympics, the place his five-year-old son Robbie might watch him dive at a Video games for the primary time.

‘Paris 2024 is certainly a aim,’ admitted Daley, who not too long ago grew to become a father for a second time, in a video publish on YouTube. 

‘I am not able to be finished and hold up my trunks and transfer on with that a part of my life. Particularly when my son Robbie stated, ‘Pappa I wish to see you dive on the Olympics’.’

Olympic champion Tom Daley has stated he’ll return to the pool to focus on a spot at Paris 2024

Daley, 29, gained Olympic gold alongside Matty Lee (proper) within the males’s synchronised 10 metre platform on the Tokyo Video games, his third Olympics after his debut as a teen at London 2012

Daley revealed a latest go to Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, USA additionally helped affect his determination.

‘We had one of the best time at time on the Olympic and Paralympic Museum taking part in totally different video games and on the finish we went right into a room to observe a video about what it means to be an athlete and see these inspirational journeys,’ he added.

‘I simply wept. I could not management myself. I hadn’t grieved diving. I hadn’t been doing it anymore and in principle I had retired and could not think about going again to doing it once more.

‘However popping out of that museum one thing modified in me and that has lit a brand new flame and fireplace inside me to see the place this goes.’