After two years Tom Daley is back to diving in Paris 2024

The Olympic diving champion Tom Daley has said he will return to the pool to target a spot at Paris 2024.

Daley, now 29, won Olympic gold alongside Matty Lee in the men’s 10-metre synchronised competition at the Tokyo Games in 2020, his fourth Olympics. The three-time world champion has taken two years out since then, saying he had “in theory retired”, but in a new YouTube video he said a recent trip to Colorado Springs in the US had reignited his competitive spirit with a year to go until Paris.

Daley and his husband, Dustin Lance Black, travelled to Colorado for the birth of their second son, Phoenix, in March, and Daley said he had not realised its status as an Olympic city – it is home to the US Olympic and Paralympic training centre – until they arrived. He took his eldest son, Robbie, to the museum there and said he felt inspired to attempt a return.

After making his Olympic debut as a 14-year-old at Beijing in 2008, he won bronze medals at London 2012 and Rio 2016, before finally claiming gold at the delayed Tokyo Games in July 2021, where he also won another individual bronze.

"We had the best time at time at the Olympic and Paralympic Museum playing different games and at the end we went into a room to watch a video about what it means to be an athlete and see those inspirational journeys," recalled the three-time world champion.

"I just wept; I couldn't control myself, I hadn't grieved diving.

"I hadn't been doing it anymore and that I in theory had retired and couldn't imagine going back to doing it again.

The three-time world champion has not competed since then, declaring he had "in theory retired".

But in a new YouTube video he said a recent trip to Colorado Springs in the United States had reignited his competitive spirit with a year to go until the Paris Games.

Daley added his second Olympic bronze medal on the individual platform in Tokyo, becoming the first British diver ever to win four Olympic medals, but he hasn’t competed since then. In March, Daley and his husband, Dustin Lance Black, welcomed their second child, Phoenix Rose Black-Daley.

Arguably the most famous diver in history, Daley has built his success on the platform into a lucrative away-from-the-pool status. He has 3.2 million followers on Instagram, which is a similar number to Michael Phelps, and has almost 1.2 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.

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Sarah H

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