Max Whitlock, Britain's most successful gymnast, will retire after the Paris 2024 Games. The 31-year-old, who has won 32 major international medals, will become the first gymnast to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus if he adds to his two golds and a bronze on the pommel horse this summer. Whitlock's Olympic journey began at London 2012, where he claimed bronze in the pommel horse and helped Great Britain finish third in the team event. At Rio 2016, he won bronze for Britain's first medal in the all-around event for 108 years and became the nation's first individual Olympic gold medallist in artistic gymnastics with victory in the floor and pommel horse events.
Whitlock has won three World Championship golds, four European Championship titles, and four Commonwealth Games golds. He has always had the mindset of trying to prove people wrong throughout his journey and has always had the mindset of trying to do this for as long as possible. His motivation for Paris 2024 comes from wanting his daughter Willow, who was born in February 2019, to watch him compete at an Olympics. This year's Olympics take place between 26 July and 11 August.
Whitlock will be in action at the European Championships in Italy at the end of April before the British Olympic gymnastics squad is announced in June.