We have to remember eight divers were confirmed by the British Olympic Association last May to represent Team GB at Paris 2024 in the four synchronised diving events. For the masculine representation, Tom Daley had quit the sport after winning his first Olympic gold with Matty Lee in Tokyo, but came out of retirement last July after his son told him he wanted to see him compete at the Olympics.

The pair will line up together in the Women’s 3m Synchronised Springboard final, hoping to replicate their recent success on the world stage and claim their first Olympic medals. As for Dive London’s Mew Jensen, who was initially encouraged to take up the sport by her PE teacher as an eight-year-old, it will be a dream to have her family and friends be in the stands to watch her compete and hopefully win a medal at her second Olympic Games.

“I’m so excited. It’s a big dream to have them watch me and it’s a great opportunity to have them there as it’s so close and they didn’t really have the option to come to Tokyo. I just can’t wait to see them there and to be able to celebrate regardless”, she said.

“Mine and Yasmin’s goal for the Games hasn’t changed. I think we’re set on getting that medal, we’ve obviously competed incredibly well over the past year with a couple of world medals so that’s definitely the goal. But it’s also just to go out there have fun and it’s Yasmin’s first Games so it’s really important to have a great experience too”, she added.

She also has words for her experience in Tokyo, and thinks “Tokyo was obviously such a different environment so I don’t really know what to expect still. But I do know that I’ve been on that board at an Olympic Games so I think I’m half prepared. And I think if I can give Yas a bit of reassurance on that side of things, keeping level headed and not letting the nerves get to me too much having been there before”, she talks.

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Mew Jensen was just 19 when she made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 where she finished 22nd in the individual Women’s 3m Springboard. After an injury hit 2022, she began to team with Harper where they stormed to silver in the Women’s 3m Synchro at the 2023 World Championships in Japan, before backing that up with world bronze in Doha last February. The pair have a really close relationship, despite Yasmin representing City of Sheffield, and Mew Jensen believes this has helped them towards their success.

“We’ve been friends for a really long time. We’ve been on the scene together since we were so young and when you’re good mates with somebody it’s really easy to bring that side of work in”, she confirmed.

The masculine representation starts with Tom Daley, who will become the first British diver to appear at five Olympic Games after he and Noah Williams were named for the 10m platform synchro, the event in which Daley triumphed at Tokyo 2020.

Daley and Williams took silver at February's World Aquatics Championships in Doha with China's Lian Junjie and Yang Hao almost 50 points clear in first. Lee - who won Commonwealth Games gold with Williams two years ago, was ruled out of the Paris Games following surgery on his spine in March.

The result is that Daley will have had a new synchro partner at each of his five Games. The 29-year-old previously paired up with Blake Aldridge at Beijing 2008 and Peter Waterfield at London 2012, before winning bronze at Rio 2016 with Daniel Goodfellow.

Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England commented, "Congratulations to the first eight divers selected to Team GB for Paris 2024. All four pairs have proven that they can challenge for podium places on the world stage, and it is fantastic to see the calibre of diving athletes getting stronger and stronger with each Games," he explained.

"There is also a fantastic mix of youth and experience within the squad, and I am delighted to welcome Olympic champions Jack and Tom back to Team GB for a fourth and fifth Games respectively. Congratulations to Tom in particular who becomes the first British diver to compete at five Olympic Games, a remarkable achievement," he said.