Last month saw 3x Olympic Gold Medalist and Britains greatest ever Gymnast, Max Whitlock OBE, announce that Paris 2024 will be his last Olympic Games. Max’s glittering Olympic career started out back at London 2012, where he was part of Team GB’s first gymnastics medal winning team since 1912. He also secured Bronze in the individual pommel Horse. Max has built on his success where are Rio he won Gold in both the floor and the pommel horse before specialising in Pommel for Tokyo 2020 where he retained his title, winning gold once again.
Reflecting on his career Max Whitlock OBE said “This moment feels like it's the right time for me. Reflecting on my 24-year journey, I feel extremely fortunate to have found such a huge passion and something I have loved for so long. I’m excited and motivated to aim for a fourth and final Olympics. This final chapter of my competing career, the most motivated in the last eight years, has me excited for the opportunity to try and create further history.”
Max’s announcement garnered over 1.25B in online readership as well as reaching offline audience of 50M and a 1M print circulation.
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