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Double Olympic swimming champion Tatjana Smith is coming out of retirement with the aim of competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 29-year-old, who is South Africa’s most decorated Olympian, said she was “missing the water”, adding her return “feels a little crazy, a little scary and very exciting all at once”.<\/p>\n
Smith, who won 100m breaststroke gold and 200m silver at the Paris 2024 Games, to add to 200m breaststroke gold and 100m silver at Tokyo 2020, is aiming to compete over a new Olympic distance of 50m. <\/p>\n
“It’s definitely a new challenge, a new event, a new race, but also a new me,” she said. <\/p>\n
“For the first time, I am choosing swimming and I am choosing the event and I am choosing a new event, that has no history but to try and write some new history.<\/p>\n
“LA 2028 is the goal. It is not a promise. I still have to build a race, qualify and earn my place back on those blocks.” <\/p>\n
The former 200m breaststroke world record holder initially retired from swimming after the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n