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Swim Michelle Coleman puts his career on the shelf, 16 years after the national team debut.
It reveals the star for SVT News.
-I haven’t regretted for a second since I made the decision, says 31-year-old Coleman.
It’s a few weeks ago Michelle Coleman Made the decision to end his career, but only now has the swimming star chosen to go out with the news.
– I have made my career in elite sports and I feel ready with a calm in my stomach and a joy and pride, she tells SVT Sport.
Coleman won the European Championship gold a year ago
The decision came as a surprise to outsiders because Coleman had plans to invest further as late as January, but according to Coleman she has wanted the decision for months. Now she is ready to start a new chapter in life.
– I am very happy and embarrassed to start the “new life”. Where you don’t have to think about not missing a workout, can’t take vacation, not think about doping checks and so on. There are many small things that you have lived with in half their lives that are now completely different, Coleman tells SVT.
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Michelle Coleman, who is one of Sarah Sjöströms31, best friends, started swimming as a nine-year-old and national team debuted in 2009. She has taken 20 international championship medals, of which several World Cup medals in team caps and won an European gold in the 50 m freestyle in December 2023.
– It is clear that I am very proud to have taken my first gold when I am 30, it felt sick big and cool. After all, I have felt that it has been a development journey all the way, that I could get better and better all the time. It feels very nice, she says.
Celebrating your career with “Pension Party”
She tells Dagens Nyheter that she will celebrate her ended career with a big party.
– I think you are celebrating far too few things in life, so I intend to have a “pension party”. There are so many people who have helped and supported in different ways during my career. I want to get the chance to thank them and at the same time celebrate everything that I have experienced. It will be a good ending, she says.
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The decision to quit grew stronger after the summer Olympics in Paris. She did not want the final loss of 50 m freestyle to be her last competition, but she changed the opposite after completing a workout alone in the Eriksdalshallen when her friends were off to the situation.
– It is always sad to swim alone, but I have done that before and yet felt motivated and peppered. But when I started to think about what my next competition was going to be this time, I realized that I had zero interest in competing. Then I knew I was done with this, and that the time to end my career had come, she says.
Thanks for all the great years and for all the great efforts you have made for Swedish swimming. You are a great role model, Michelle. Hope you enjoy your new life and that you find your way forward.
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