14-time Olympic medalist Emma McKeon retires from swimming

FILE - Emma McKeon of Australia poses after winning the gold medal in the Women's 50 meters butterfly final during the swimming competition of the Commonwealth Games, at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

FILE - Emma McKeon of Australia poses after winning the gold medal in the Women's 50 meters butterfly final during the swimming competition of the Commonwealth Games, at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)


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SYDNEY — Emma McKeon, Australia's most decorated Olympian, has announced her retirement from competitive swimming. McKeon holds the Australian record of 14 Olympic medals _ six of them gold _ won over three Summer Olympics. While the 30-year-old McKeon had previously hinted that the 2024 Paris Games would be her final Olympics she had not said whether she would she would continue swimming competitively. McKeon's seven-medal haul at Tokyo 2020 is the most ever by a female swimmer at a single Games and equal most for any female athlete from any sport at a single Olympics, while her career tally of 14 Olympic medals is tied for most by any female swimmer.

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