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She had been one of the major competitors of Marleen Veldhuis . While that has indicated after her pregnancy to turn back at the highest level, did Libby Trickett today that it has stopped. The triple Olympic champion said that the stop swimming at the top level the hardest decision of her life, but it feels good that she has severed the knot. At the end of the summer she had a rest inserted, because the World Championships in Rome for its disappointing run.

Trickett swam her first international competition at age 17. During the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, she won gold with the 4x100m freestyle relay, where they in Beijing in 2008 her first individual gold in the 100m butterfly could get. During several world championships, she came up to 8 gold medals and in 2006 she won no less than 4 gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

"I am Completely satisfied," said Trickett. "Probably People expect me to say an Olympic gold medal in 100m freestyle might be nice, but ultimately if I had to swim on that would be Probably the only reason for me to swim on and I That can not justify doing for four years and then maybe walking away and not having Achieved that. That question I've asked myself, `I am okay with not winning an Olympic gold medal in the 100m freestyle?" And the answer was `I am okay with that '. When you say That, That Means you're ready to move on. "

Trickett stops at least at its high point, because in her last race she swam a world record in the 100m freestyle (Short Course). Asked whether she still possible in the future will make a comeback Trickett did not definitively say no. "I do not want to burn my bridges. It would be silly to say never say never, but all I can do is what is right for me right now. "