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Three-time Olympic champion and Britain's most successful gymnast, Max Whitlock, has announced his return to sport at the age of 32 to compete in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Idman.Biz reports that Whitlock ended his career after the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, where he finished fourth in the pommel horse event.
"I'm back. It's unbelievable. I'm officially back, I'm a professional gymnast again, and it's just madness.
Something was bugging me all year; something just wasn't sitting right. It felt like something was unfinished.
I feel like I've been given an opportunity, and it's not going to come around again. So I'm going back for three years to try and qualify for my fifth Olympic Games.
I know it's a long shot, but I want to end it on a positive note; I want to rewrite the end of my career. I'd rather take the chance than not take the chance because I think if 10 or 15 years went by, I'd look back and regret it.
I've missed a year and have gradually been coming back. I picked up an injury last week. I wasn't even training on the pommel horse, I was just sitting next to it looking at my phone and looked up - and my neck went," - the BBC quotes Whitlock.
