Tom Daley Hasn't 'Made Any Decisions' About Competing in 2024 Olympics: I'm 'Working Out What's Next'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Tom Daleyis still thinking about hisOlympics future.

While he thinks the upcoming sporting event is “going to be an amazing Olympics,” Daley tells PEOPLE, “I haven’t made any decisions about what exactly that is going to mean for me yet.”

“I did go back into the pool last week — and I had a lot of fun doing it — but I don’t know when I’m going to be ready to go back into it full-time,” he explains. “At the moment, I’m still kind of working out exactly what’s next for me.”

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He didn’t take home any awards in Beijing but returned to the Olympics in 2012 and earned bronze, his first-ever medal in the synchronized platform event.

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“It’s kind of unbelievable,” Daley told reporters after he and teammate Matty Lee — who he described as his “best mate” — won gold.

“I think this competition, we both visualized us winning, and we believed that we could win. And every day, like laying in bed every day, I would visualize my dive over and over and over and over again with no mistakes,” Daley added. “And it played out exactly how we had visualized it every single day.”

source: people.com