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Aussie Trickett to swim on to London 2012


Australia's sprint world record holder Libby Trickett said Sunday she plans on competing at the 2012 London Olympics There have been two London Olympics (London hosting the Olympic Games), in 1908 and 1948, with a third scheduled for 2012. The planned 2012 Olympics will make London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads. .

The triple Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear.  medallist announced she was aiming for a third Games after weighing up her future following last month's Beijing Olympics.

"The goal for me is definitely 2012," Trickett, 23, said on television.

"Probably after the Olympics I had to make a decision whether I did want to go on or not and I still feel like I have more to give in the sport and I have more to achieve.

"I would love to be one of the swimmers to have achieved a third Olympics."

The 50m and 100m freestyle The code name for the MCE version of Windows. See Media Center Edition.  world-record holder had a mixed Olympics, winning the 100m butterfly title at Beijing's Water Cube before missing out in her two freestyle events.

She anchored Australia in the victorious 4x100m medley med·ley  
n. pl. med·leys
1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and
 relay on the final day of competition in Beijing.

Trickett, swimming as Lenton, took gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics Athens Olympics
  1. 1896 Summer Olympics Games of the I Olympiad
  2. 1906 Summer Olympics Intercalated Games
  3. 2004 Summer Olympics Games of the XXVIII Olympiad


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