Eighteen months after sparking retirement rumours, Kyle Chalmers reveals 2032 Olympic 'miracle' dream
About a-year-and-a-half ago Kyle Chalmers sparked rumours of his own impending retirement from the pool.
Now the Aussie swimming great says he plans on making the team for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
It would be nothing short of a sporting "miracle" - his own words - to even qualify for the Dolphins at 34 years of age, and 16 years after winning 100m Olympic gold in Rio.
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The 26-year-old has no plans to hang up the goggles despite flagging the end of his own career in August 2023.
He told SEN radio at the time Paris 2024 would "be the last Olympics for me". When media outlets picked up the comments he backtracked and denied it was a signal of intent to retire.
Kyle Chalmers speaks to Today. Nine
He made it on the plane to Paris and won silver in his pet 100m freestyle event.
Speaking to Nine's Today on Tuesday, he revealed he has his eyes on a home Olympics before retiring.
"We've got world champs trials coming up here in a couple months' time, which I'm really looking forward to competing in front of a home crowd again in Adelaide," he said.
"Then I guess starting to get ready for LA (Olympics) in 2028, and who knows, if I'm still swimming by Brisbane 2032 it would be a miracle... but the fingers are crossed.
"It would be amazing to swim in front of a home crowd up there in Brisbane."
Australian veteran Cameron McEvoy shook up his training program last year and made it to Paris, and won gold in the 50m sprint.
His radical new training regimen offered a different blueprint to swimmers wanting to prolong their careers.
Chalmers now wants to best 30-year-old McEvoy.
"I absolutely love it, I'll swim as long as I possibly can," he said.
"My mind wants to do it, I emotionally want to do it. As long as my body holds up I'll be able to swim for a bit longer yet.
"I've been on the team for 10 years now, so looking for another eight years would be a miracle, but it's something I'm definitely working towards.
"I'm looking after my body. I'm no longer training harder, I'm training smarter in the hope I'll be able to prolong my career."
Chalmers is using his in-between time to give back to Australian Indigenous communities.
He has launched a swimming academy in regional Australia and hopes to one day have one of its students compete at a Games.
"That would be a big goal, but something to look forward to in the future," he said.
