Titmus poses holding his medal. – Reproduction: Reuters/Stoyan Nenov/archives

the australian Ariane Timus announced that he could end his career
swimmer in the Paris Olympic Games next year, if you can’t find
motivation continue. tit, Olympic champion in the 200 and 400 meter freestylesaid he spoke to his trainer dean boxall about your future and don’t want to think beyond the next 12 months.

Titmus told reporters he isn’t sure how it will be after Paris, whether he could continue to compete, but he didn’t guarantee it. “It’s definitely not a love story or a body story. I think if I were to go to Paris and win again, definitely (there could be) a motivating factor. It gets harder to keep going. to train at the same level when you have basically everything I wanted to accomplish.”

The Australian, whose rivalry with American Katie Ledecky lit up the Tokyo Games, has qualified with her country’s team for next month’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, after winning the 400 m freestyle during a trial in Melbourne. Her time of 3:58.47 was better than the 4:00.49 set in April, but fell short of the world record set by Canadian Summer McIntosh.

McIntosh, 16, broke Titmus’ previous world record with a time of 3:56.08 at the Canadian Trials in March. Titmus, Ledecky and McIntosh are ready to fight for the 400m freestyle title in Fukuoka.

Titmus said the three swimmers were “pretty equal” before Fukuoka, but McIntosh had relatively little experience in big events. “I feel like Summer hasn’t had that experience yet, competing on the international stage under great pressure, so it will be interesting to see how she does,” Titmus concluded.