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Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell
After Jessica Parratto earned a silver medal in Tokyo for girls’s synchronized 10m platform with accomplice Delaney Schnell—Workforce USA’s first-ever medal in that occasion—the 5-foot-2 athlete retired to, as she instructed NBC Sports activities, “lastly be a standard individual.”
She did that for, like, a yr till Schnell wooed her again into the pool. However to be clear, Parratto mentioned of her return earlier than they certified for Paris, “I did not do it as a result of she wished me to. I actually did it as a result of I wished to.”
However she does not thoughts the camaraderie, both. When Schnell banged her ft on the Montreal Diving World Cup in Could, Parratto’s first worldwide occasion again from retirement, “it was a extremely good bonding second for us,” she mentioned, “and simply being like, okay, we obtained this.”
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