Diving great Daley thought Tokyo was his final Olympics
Team GB gold medallist diver Tom Daley said his children are the reason he didn't retire after the Tokyo Games
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00:00Yeah, I thought I retired after Tokyo if I'm quite honest.
00:03We all thought you'd retired.
00:04Yeah, I took two years away from the sport and it took me actually going to the
00:09Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs actually,
00:13where at the end there's this video of what it means to be an Olympian
00:18and it took me completely off guard and of course had quite an emotional response.
00:23It was my son who said to me that he wanted to see me dive in the Olympics
00:28and of course when your children say that they want you to do something,
00:32whether it's going back into the pool and training for the Olympics, you do it.
00:36But this time last year was when I decided to come back
00:39and I didn't know if I was going to get back into the synchro team,
00:42if we were going to qualify a spot, but with a bit of hard work
00:46and making sure that you show up every day and determination, you can get there.