News about Max Whitlock

A Team GB Olympic hero is 'set to star in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'.

During the Paris Olympic games, Team GB have won successive medals, scoring gold in a number of sporting feats across the two weeks of competition. To mark the glittering success of British athletes, Cadburys have unveiled a bespoke chocolate creation in honour of the incredible achievements from British athletes in Paris 2024. The eye grabbing creation has been intricately a team of talented chocolatiers who have adorned an enormous chocolate tower with 13 different sports represented. The indulgent construction features chocolate molded to represent different sporting scenes, including a miniature diving board, Pommel horse, running shoes, skateboard, and even a diving pool.

A brother and sister won Olympic medals within minutes of each other yesterday on a 'Super Saturday' for Team GB. During a sensational day at the Games, Britain's Olympians cemented their position in the top five with six more medals to add to their haul. The rush began early as Emily Ford took bronze in the women's eight rowing - just 20 minutes before her brother Tom won gold in the men's eight. Emily, 29, revealed she was once 'petrified of water' and had been terrified of falling in when she first stepped into a boat near the family home in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire.

IAN HERBERT AT BERCY ARENA: There was the distinct sound of a child's voice among the cries of encouragement as Max Whitlock went through the final 90-second performance of a career for which he will be remembered as one of Britain's great Olympians. Whitlock has revealed that his five-year-old daughter, Willow, likes to offer encouragement in unscripted ways when he competes and though he was too consumed by the task in hand to hear anything, the possibility contributed to the burning intensity of the gymnast's treacherously brief last performance. When Andy Murray made his last stand in this city on Thursday, he had an hour or so to rage against the dying of the light. But the pursuit of glory on pommel horse is over before you know it and thus carries terrible jeopardy. Even as Whitlock grasped hold of the equipment, he saw that an athlete five years his junior, who had just performed, achieved a score that would make gold that bit harder to retain.

Max Whitlock fights back the tears in an emotional interview following his final-ever routine in gymnastics at the Olympic Games. Whitlock, 31, was going for a third successive pommel horse Olympic gold before he retires from the sport after the Paris Games. However, there was no fairytale ending for the three-time Olympic champion as he missed out on a medal - finishing an agonising fourth place. In an interview with the BBC following his final outing, Whitlock became overcome with emotion when he was asked about his five-year-old daughter Willow watching him from the stands at the Bercy Arena.

In this morning's Olympics Breakfast Briefing, Sir Steve Redgrave issues a rallying cry for a jam-packed day eight in Paris. Our first medal hope will be at 9am in the dressage team Grand Prix Special as Britain look to build on yesterday's jumping success. Great Britain have three contenders in the women's 100m, which will kick off with the semis at 6.50pm before the final at 8.20pm.

Gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik's girlfriend Tess McCracken admittedly almost fainted as he delivered a pommel horse performance that helped Team USA secure its first Olympic medal since 2016. 'I was so lightheaded from screaming that I almost fainted,' McCracken told NBC News. A former Penn State gymnast, the 26-year-old McCracken had only one thought as Nedoroscik made it through a nearly flawless routine on the pommel horse in Paris: 'Stay on the horse.'

The Paris Olympics are officially underway and Team GB will be hoping to rack up a big collection of medals over the coming weeks.  Friday night saw the opening ceremony which was held along the River Seine and it will go down as a memorable one.  Saturday sees a whole host of action coming from the dressage, hockey, gymnastics, swimming, cycling and more.  Our team in Paris look ahead to a feast of sport and pick their top medal hopes.

As British athletes Tom Daley, Sky Brown and Max Whitlock prepare for the Paris Olympics, we ask BBC presenters - including Steve Cram (top right), Gabby Logan (bottom right), Matt Baker (bottom left) and Clare Balding (top left) - for their favourite memories and top predictions.

DAVID COVERDALE: 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.

Max Whitlock's most recent victory came a fortnight ago when he won pommel horse gold at the Apparatus World Cup in Paris. That victory was significant because it was his first international competition since winning his third Olympic title in Tokyo two years ago, after which he suffered with his mental health and considered retirement. Now Whitlock is trying to be victorious at the World Championships in Antwerp this week, where daughter Willow will be watching him play in an arena for the first time.

BY DAVID COVERDALE: Exclusive INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE (British) BY DAVID COVERDALE: The Bell's Sports Centre in Perth offers a low-profile return to one of Britain's most prominent Olympians. However, we should just be thankful he is back at all. It's been 18 months since the Team GB gymnast competed on a pommel horse when he captured his third Olympic gold medal in Tokyo. We didn't know then that it was about the last act of his career. 'I didn't announce it publicly, but in my head, I was adamant I was finished,' Whitlock tells Sportsmail. I told everyone close to me that I wasn't going back to the gym and I was done.'

When visiting a former London 2012 venue to commemorate a sports charity with the Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales displayed his boxing skills. William and Kate, who were flawlessly dressed in a vintage blue Chanel jacket, travelled to the Copper Box Arena in east London to participate in a match with Coach Core, which was sponsored by the pair's Royal Foundation. It was established in the capital in the same year that the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held, contributing to the event's legacy and a protester of the London riots. The couple, both 40, had the opportunity to meet some of the youngsters with whom the charity works, and got a glimpse of the sporting sessions on offer and how they can change young people's lives. When the case was over, William tried his hand at boxing. The nonprofit has been working to prepare the next generation of sports coaches who will help their communities, and has helped more than 750 homeless young people transition to community sports coaching apprenticeships.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT THE ALEXANDER STADIUM: In the end, all the splashing and sprinting, flipping, and lifting had occurred, there was badminton. All forms of sports were present on the 11th day of sport, from the sublime to the bizarre - but the last blow was by Malaysian's Pearly Tan at 2.30 p.m. An outstanding Commonwealth Games, to all bar the most curmudgeonly. To take them for what they are, whether it is found in Ghanaian doormen or the fall and ascension of giants like Adam Peaty.