Three-time Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock will retire after the Paris 2024 Video games.
The 31-year-old, who has gained 32 main worldwide medals, is Britain’s most profitable gymnast.
He’ll turn out to be the primary gymnast to win 4 Olympic medals on the identical equipment if he provides to his two golds and a bronze on the pommel horse this summer season.
“This resolution now feels proper,” Whitlock advised BBC Breakfast.
“Going for my remaining Olympic Video games, it feels very, very unusual speaking about it and it is nearly onerous to articulate what it is like.
“It is a very nice mindset to be in, to assume I will simply give all of it I’ve obtained.”
Whitlock’s Olympic journey began at London 2012, the place he claimed bronze within the pommel horse and helped Nice Britain end third within the group occasion.
At Rio 2016 he gained bronze for Britain’s first medal within the all-around occasion for 108 years, and have become the nation’s first particular person Olympic gold medallist in inventive gymnastics with victory within the ground and pommel horse occasions.
After retaining his pommel horse title on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Whitlock took an 18-month break from the game to take care of psychological well being struggles.
His different honours embody three World Championship golds, 4 European Championship titles and 4 Commonwealth Video games golds.
