Britain’s Tom Daley announces retirement after Paris Olympics silver
Britain’s five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daley says he’s retiring. The 30-year-old tells British Vogue, he feels ‘it’s the right time to call it a day.’
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00:00Britain's five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daly says he's retiring.
00:06The 30-year-old tells British Vogue he feels, quote, it's the right time to call it a day.
00:12Daly ended his final Olympiad in Paris with a silver from the men's synchronized 10-meter
00:16dive with Noah Williams.
00:18It was a fitting comeback for Daly as he took a hiatus after winning gold in the Tokyo Olympics
00:23in 2021.
00:25He says he returned for a final Olympiad because his older son asked him to.
00:30With that, Daly became the first British diver to compete in five Olympics.
00:34His popularity grew after he came out as gay in 2013.
00:38He tells the BBC, quote, he's really happy with how everything's gone.