Golden girl contemplates a comeback for Commonwealth Games Stephanie Rice of Australia. Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice could return to the competition pool in time for next year's Commonwealth Games, but she said the decision would not be straightforward as her life had progressed beyond swimming. Rice's performance at the London Olympic Games was affected by a shoulder injury and she decided to take at least a year off to recover. During that time Rice moved to Sydney from Brisbane and has been working with Channel Nine, where she will appear on Celebrity Apprentice, and has several other projects on the go. She said she was tempted to return to swimming, and would make a decision by the end of the year, but would limit her program to sprint races such as the 100 metre butterfly and 100m freestyle, rather than the 400m and 200m individual medleys in which she won her Olympic golds. "The Commonwealth Games is something I've always had in the back of my mind," Rice said. I really want to make sure that I'm making a clear decision on swimming and my future because after the Olympics there was so much going on, so much mental stress, and I just needed to step away and focus on something a little bit positive because of everything that happened with my shoulder. There was no way I was ever going to be ready for this year so it was nice to be able to take the whole year off. However, Rice said she would need to consider what impact a return to the pool would have on her other pursuits. If I was to step back into swimming, [other projects] would all fall back again until I quit swimming so there's a lot of pros and cons to both and I really just need to make a decision as to which one I love more. It's never been a money thing or anything like that so there's a lot to weigh up. I don't know if I ever needed swimming. I've always loved it. I never did it because it was going to bring me sponsorship and money and fame and things like that. I was just so fortunate and blessed that happened for me ... I've enjoyed going to events [like] my sister's graduation, little things I could never go to before. I've enjoyed kind of being a little bit more normal. Twitter-@stathipaxinos