KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s diving flagbearer Yona Knight-Wisdom is set to retire from the sport at the end of this year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

Knight-Wisdom, 29, who is based in the United Kingdom, will be competing in his third Olympic Games for Jamaica.

Knight-Wisdom told Observer Online that he has been contemplating this decision for a very long time, and he believes that the Olympics will be the perfect place for him to end his career.

“This is going to be my last Olympics. I have been thinking about it for the past year, and so this is going to be my last competition,” said Knight-Wisdom.

“I always wanted to go out on the highest level, and this is the opportunity to do that, and I would like to take it,” he said. “I think that my body is definitely telling me to slow down, and this is the perfect place to do so by ending my career at the Olympic Games.”

Knight-Wisdom made history when he became the first diver from Jamaica to qualify for the Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio, as well as the first male diver from any Caribbean nation to achieve this feat.

He also represented Jamaica at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, in the three-metre springboard event, where he finished 15th in the semifinal and failed to progress to the final of the competition.

— Robert Bailey