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Stephanie Rice announces retirement

What was Australia's best swimming year? (AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT)
9th April, 2014
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Three-time Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has announced her retirement from competitive swimming today.

Rice, who won the 200m, 400m individual medley and the 4x200m freestyle medley relay gold medals in Beijing, has been on hiatus from the sport since a disappointing 2012 London Olympics campaign.

But today she announced she would quit the sport after being hampered by poor form and a shoulder injury.

Rice battled through three shoulder operations before the London Games, and said that it “seemed like everything went wrong for me at the London Games.”


Reflecting on her amazing achievements at the Beijing Olympics, which led to her being one of Australia’s ‘Golden generation’ of female swimmers, Rice said: “It was a complete shock, and it was the best moment I could have experienced.

“Everything lined up so perfectly for me in the Beijing preparation.”

Rice admitted that it would have been “easy to walk away after Beijing, and call it a day there,” but believed she had “a lot more to prove as an athlete.”

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You can watch her announce her retirement video below:

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