Injury forces Trickett into second retirement 'I think with this injury I've started to let go of the sport.' Australia has lost one of the final reminders of its golden age of swimming for the second time, with former world and Olympic champion Libby Trickett again retiring. Trickett retired in 2009 after the controversies of the supersuit era and returned to the pool in 2010. She made the team for last year's London Olympics, where she was a heat swimmer for the 4x100-metre freestyle relay team. However, she was not included in the team that went on to win the final. Trickett said there would be no comebacks this time, with an injury to her wrist - having torn a ligament during weights training - proving too great to overcome. "Post-London I was 100 per cent sure that I wanted to keep swimming to the next Olympics but it's funny the way life happens and sometimes you don't always get what you want," she said. For me, the real catalyst was my wrist injury. It's a difficult injury that I've got and, to be honest, I'm still now not at a point where I can do full training, and that's after eight months. To be honest, I don't think I'd ever be able to let go of swimming by myself. I did that once and I found that really difficult and I don't think I really let go and I think with this injury I've started to let go of the sport. I've been forced to basically, and it's allowed me to have a greater appreciation of what I've been able to achieve in my swimming career and certainly start to move and look forward to the next chapter. Trickett, who won gold in the butterfly at the Beijing Olympics, was the only swimmer who made the London team from Swimming Australia's ill-conceived investment in out-of-retirement champions including Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim and Geoff Huegill. But she was a shadow of the swimmer who won 17 gold medals across three Olympics, four world championships and the 2007 Commonwealth Games. She said she realised the injury would not allow her to return to the top level of sprinting. "If it had happened five years ago I think that I, 100 per cent, would have been able to get back and get back to the highest level," Trickett said. But being 28 and having had already a year out of the water, I was behind the eight ball anyway and to carry an injury - which is what I would have had to have done for the rest of my career - is difficult.