Chalmers hits out after radio comments cause a stir

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UPDATE: Australian swimming prima Kyle Chalmers has deed backmost astatine reports helium volition discontinue pursuing adjacent year's Olympics, claiming helium plans to proceed competing.

The 25-year-old acceptable tongues wagging connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile helium went connected SEN vigor and revealed Paris 2024 volition beryllium his last Games.

"It volition beryllium the past Olympics for me... I'll beryllium 26," Chalmers said.

"I'm the oldest successful the marshalling room. I'll beryllium aged and acceptable to commencement the adjacent section of my life."

Kyle Chalmers celebrates winning golden successful the men's 100m freestyle last connected time 5 of the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships. (Getty)

While galore assumed those comments were fundamentally status plans, Chalmers took to Instagram to clarify his presumption aft seeing the headlines.

"I americium not retiring! The punctuation was 'it volition beryllium my past Olympics'," helium wrote.

"There are galore competitions aft the Olympics that inactive springiness maine the accidental to correspond my state astatine the highest level.

"We person a satellite championships abbreviated people successful 2024, satellite title agelong people successful 2025, Commonwealth Games successful 2026 and plentifulness of satellite cups successful determination also.

"I person plentifulness of titles that request defending."

Chalmers burst onto the satellite country arsenic an 18-year-old erstwhile helium won 100m freestyle golden astatine the 2016 Rio Olympics.

His aquatics of 47.58 besides broke the satellite inferior record, mounting precocious expectations for the young star.

Unfortunately enarthrosis injuries past hampered his career, but helium rallied to triumph 100m freestyle metallic astatine Tokyo 2020, finishing lone 0.6 seconds down Caeleb Dressel.

Chalmers broke the abbreviated people 100m freestyle satellite grounds astatine the 2021 Swimming World Cup successful Kazan, and conscionable last period won golden astatine the World Aquatics Championships successful Japan.

Chalmers antecedently threatened to locomotion distant from swimming pursuing aggravated scrutiny surrounding his backstage beingness astatine past year's Commonwealth Games.

Chalmers brushes Simpson aft race

Chalmers was quizzed perpetually astir the information his erstwhile partner, Emma McKeon, was present successful a narration with their chap squad subordinate Cody Simpson.

Speaking connected a podcast earlier this year, Chalmers revealed helium astir discontinue swimming aft a poolside interview with Olympic large Giaan Rooney.

"I deliberation for me, I won't halt and talk to Giaan oregon talk connected excavation platform now... My household wage to beryllium successful the stands, my grandparents travel crossed to ticker the meets ... I'm truthful arrogant of my accomplishment and past I get retired of the excavation and person that benignant of happen," Chalmers said.

"It's conscionable not worthy (it), I person nary work to stop.

"It was very, precise fatiguing and exhausting. It was thing I didn't privation to woody with."

Chalmers volition person to suffice for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 but is considered a beardown accidental to marque the squad pursuing his triumph successful Japan.

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