Aussie swim star eyes 'crazy' Olympic record

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Cate Campbell has confirmed plans to vie successful the 2024 Olympic Games, perchance making her the archetypal Australian swimmer to vie astatine 5 Olympics.

Speaking connected Nine's Today, Campbell says she has pencilled successful Paris and volition commencement grooming successful the caller year.

"I deliberation Paris is simply a large drawcard for me, it looks truthful large and what they person planned looks phenomenal," she said.

"They're readying connected having the opening ceremonial connected the River Seine they'll person immoderate of the caller sports successful the Olympics."

If she swims successful Paris she volition go the archetypal Australian swimmer to be 5 Olympics, with American Michael Phelps the lone different swimmer to vie successful arsenic galore Games.

"Phelps has done 5 successful the US but successful Australia I'd beryllium the archetypal 1 brainsick capable to bash it," she added.

"Everyone got distant from the excavation and the achromatic enactment agelong earlier me. There's thing astir the athletics wherever I privation to spell astir 1 much clip and it's bully to cognize this volition beryllium the past clip truthful I tin conscionable soak successful everything and bask each moment. I didn't truly get the consciousness successful Tokyo."

In Japan, Campbell and her sister Bronte were portion of the squad that broke the satellite grounds successful taking golden successful the 4x100m freestyle relay.

It was Cate's 3rd consecutive golden medal successful the women's relay aft besides being portion of victories successful Rio and London.

She besides took location bronze successful the 100m freestyle last and performed a last-lap sprint to enactment Australia successful beforehand successful the medley relay to triumph her 4th Olympic golden medal.

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