Paris 2024: Tom Daley to return to diving after two-year break

Tom Daley has won 23 medals astatine the Olympics, World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games, including 13 golds

Tom Daley volition instrumentality to diving aft a two-year interruption and bid for a spot astatine Paris 2024 aft lad Robbie said helium wanted to spot his begetter vie astatine an Olympics.

After opting against returning for this year's World Championships, wherever the archetypal batch of Olympic qualification quota places were connected offer, it was wide thought Daley was readying to officially telephone clip connected his career.

However, helium says a caller sojourn to the Olympic and Paralympic Museum successful Colorado Springs, USA, with his lad Robbie changed the absorption of his life.

"Paris 2024 is decidedly a goal," the erstwhile Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth champion said successful a station connected societal media.

"I'm not acceptable to beryllium done and I don't deliberation I was acceptable to beryllium done and bent up my trunks and determination connected with that portion of my beingness and particularly erstwhile my lad Robbie said 'Pappa I privation to spot you dive astatine the Olympics'."

Daley, who precocious became a begetter for the 2nd clip to lad Phoenix, says helium wants to "set an example" to his children by "working hard" to execute what would beryllium a British-record 5th Olympic Games quality for a British diver.

After making his Olympic debut arsenic a 14-year-old astatine Beijing successful 2008, helium won bronze medals astatine London 2012 and Rio 2016, earlier yet claiming golden astatine the delayed Tokyo Games successful July 2021, wherever helium besides won different idiosyncratic bronze.

"We had the champion clip astatine clip astatine the Olympic and Paralympic Museum playing antithetic games and astatine the extremity we went into a country to ticker a video astir what it means to beryllium an jock and spot those inspirational journeys," recalled the three-time satellite champion.

"I conscionable wept; I couldn't power myself, I hadn't grieved diving.

"I hadn't been doing it anymore and that I successful mentation had retired and couldn't ideate going backmost to doing it again.

"Coming retired of that depository thing changed successful maine and that has lit a caller occurrence and occurrence wrong maine to spot wherever this goes."

The British diving squad precocious returned from the 2023 World Championships with an awesome haul of 3 medals, but notably did not assertion podium finishes successful the men's 10m oregon men's 10m synchro events.

Daley's Olympic golden medal-winning team-mate Lee and his caller spouse Noah Williams claimed satellite metallic unneurotic successful 2022, but finished 4th successful Japan.

Should his instrumentality advancement arsenic helium hopes past Daley's archetypal contention backmost is apt to beryllium the World Championship enactment lawsuit astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth earlier the Doha World Championships successful February.

The Paris Olympics volition beryllium held from 26 July to 11 August 2024.