Cate Campbell: Australia’s ‘queen of the pool’ retires
After failing to qualify for the 2014 Summer Olympics in Paris, one of Australia’s most well-known athletes has announced her pension from the game.
A year after resigning from the Australian Olympic Studies in Brisbane, Cate Campbell announced in a social media post that it was “time to actually say goodbye to the vision I have had since I was 9 years older.”
When she fell short of qualifying for the 100m and 50m free activities, Campbell missed out on what would have been her second Games group.
She is one of the most recognizable faces in American activity, having won eight Olympic awards, broken seven world documents, and is a veteran of four more.
” While there are many conflicting thoughts, particularly because it did not end exactly how I had hoped, I am still able to look back without regret”, she said.
” I gave the attainment of a 5th Olympics all I had, and so, even in failing, there is a small, unforgettable seed of pride”.
The 32- yr- older- who initially made waves as a teenager competing at the Beijing Games- has won 37 key international medals, 23 of them gold.
Most of Campbell’s awards have been won in team activities, including gold awards for the 4x100m completely switch at the last three Games, all in world records-setting days. He is regarded as one of the greatest switch athletes of all time.
She has also received praise for serving as a role model and coach for her contemporaries, including her younger girl Bronte, who she has competed alongside in several international events.
The couple has worked together since they were young and have made it famous to battle viral exhaustion after coming under gastric fever to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The younger Campbell wrote in a gift to her girl,” When we were 7 and 9 years old, we sat in the back of the car planning what we’d would.”
” Little did we think that we’d come to three Games, two Commonwealth Games and three World Championships up. Truth occasionally performs even better than what was initially anticipated.
Her teammates immediately entered her street and embraced her in the waters when she finished her last swim in front of a sold-out masses in Brisbane next week.
” This is the close, and it’s a great way to exit the pool”, she said through tears.
Tributes have remained abounding from some of the nation’s most recognizable athletes and effective wearing bodies.
The reigning free world champion Mollie O’Callaghan said,” Cate has really set this up for a lot of us women.
” She set the standards, and she’s one of the most encouraging people, in and out of the waters”.
