She’s already won home medals for 14 years – swimming star Sarah Sjostrom is looking forward before she sees the end of her career.
– I’m definitely thinking about two Olympics or something. She says it’s a luxury to have a job you’re good at.
The 29-year-old Swedish superstar – who turns one on Wednesday – won the gold in the 50m butterfly and was an announcer for the silver team in the 4x100m freestyle last Saturday night at the European Swimming Championships. in Rome.
Her 85th and 86th World Championships medals in an unparalleled career have made her one of the world’s greatest swimming stars of all time.
It is far from finished.
Butterfly gold was special for Sarah Sjstrom Because it came 13 years after she won her first World Cup gold at the same arena, Foro Italico in Rome.
Then, when she was 14, she succeeded in 2008 with a landslide victory at the European Commission.
If she continues and manages to maintain her level during the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, it means that she had the best career of 20 years and by participating in six Olympics.
He wants to change the sport.
Sjöström has already won it all and also managed to get back to the top level with a sharp elbow fracture last year.
What drives you now?
– First of all, I am looking forward to the Olympic Games in Paris (2024), in Tokyo you cannot bring your family or friends there. Now I look forward to a different convergence with them. “And swimming in an Olympic final in the 50m freestyle and maybe the 100m freestyle when I’m over 30,” says Sjöström.
– I want to be a part of changing the sport so that you can be a part of the fight for medals and show all the teens where the closet should be. After all, there are girls who have already done it. She says you can change the culture a little bit in swimming so that more people will last longer.
“Very luxurious”
Sjöström enjoys the swimming life, has a love for the sport but also considers it a job.
I enjoy competing, traveling, and doing all these things, but it’s a bit like a job, too. She says it’s a luxury to have a job you’re good at.
Sarah Sjöström has a 50m freestyle and a 4x100m medley title in Rome.
In the 50m freestyle, which begins on Monday morning, she looks exactly like the gold medal favorite for the 50m butterfly.
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