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Injuries have forced Olympic gold medallist Chelsea Hodges to quit swimming just two months before the Paris Games. Hodges, a breaststroker who was part of Australia’s gold-medal winning 4x100m medley relay team at the Tokyo Olympics , has been battling ongoing hip injuries. “It’s with a very heavy heart I announce my retirement from competitive swimming,” the 22-year-old posted on Instagram.
” After her Olympic relay triumph, Hodges broke the Australian record for the 50m breaststroke at the Australian selection trials for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She lowered that benchmark at the Birmingham Games where she won bronze in 30.05 seconds. Hodges, sidelined last year after having surgery on a torn cartilage in her right hip, entered last month’s Australian titles but didn’t race. “There simply weren’t enough breaststroke kicks left in me,” she said.
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