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Three-time Olympic champion Max Whitlock has announced he will retire after this summer’s Games.
The 31-year-old will go for gold on the pommel horse in Paris, where he could become the first gymnast to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus.
That, though, will now be the last act of a glittering career which has already brought 32 major international medals, including six at the Olympics, making him comfortably Britain’s most successful gymnast of all time.
‘This decision now feels right,’ said Whitlock. ‘Going for my final Olympic Games, it feels very, very strange talking about it and it's almost hard to articulate what it's like. But it's a really nice mindset to be in, to think I'll just give it all I've got.’
Whitlock made his Olympic debut at London 2012, winning a bronze in the pommel horse and in the team event. At Rio 2016, he became Britain’s first individual Olympic
