Stephanie Rice attempting comeback for the 2014 Commonwealth Games Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre. TRIPLE Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has confirmed she will attempt a swimming comeback for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Rice has jumped in the pool just four times since the London Olympics, opting to take a year away from competition as she recovered from shoulder surgery and to consider her future in the sport. Speaking at the Australian championships in Adelaide, Rice said it was her intention to be back racing at the meet next year and try to qualify for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. "That's the goal, Commonwealth Games is something I've always had in the back of my mind," Rice said. I really want to make sure I'm making a clear decision on swimming and my future because after the Olympics there was so much going on and a lot of mental stress and I just really needed to step away and focus on something a little bit more positive for me at that point because of everything that happened with my shoulder, then rehab on my shoulder. There was no way I was ever going to be ready for this year. It was nice to be able to actually take the whole year off. Rice's comeback to racing plans, however, are by no means guaranteed. Her troublesome shoulder will be the ultimate indicator of whether she becomes a full-time swimmer again. She will resume full pool training by November and only once she is back in that day-to-day grind and 60km weeks will she know if she can handle another campaign. "I think I ultimately need to have made a decision by December-January but I would have had to have done a few months of actual training before that to really get me in the right frame," she said. I've been cross-training and running and doing gym, so I'm still fit, but I'm not swimming fit. I probably would need to start picking up the swimming by around November and then making a call by December-January. Rice said she would look to return to work under her previous coach Michael Bohl, which would require moving back to Brisbane from Sydney. However it would be an entirely different race program for Rice, with the 400m medley for which she won gold in Beijing and held the world record never to be raced again. Rice instead wants to focus on shorter events such as the 100m butterfly and 100m freestyle, as well as the 200m medley. "I would never come back and do the 400m medley, that is definitely gone for me," she said. If I was to come back and start training again I would really put a lot of my focus in to more sprint races, the 100 fly and even the 100 free.