Lethal ... Leisel Jones is set to announce her retirement from competitive swimming. Source: AAP
AUSTRALIA'S most experienced Olympic swimmer Leisel Jones calls a conference where it is expected she will announce her retirement from the pool.
Jones became the first Australian swimmer to compete at a fourth Olympic Games in London this year, where she finished fifth in the 100m breaststroke and collected a silver medal as a member of the women's 4x100m medley relay team.
That silver medal was the ninth Olympic medal of her illustrious career and she joined Ian Thorpe atop the list of most Olympic medals won by an Australian.
At 27 years of age, there is nothing Jones has not achieved in a 13-year international career and the desire to swim on next year was always going to be a question for the breaststroke queen.
Jones burst onto the scene as a 14-year-old at the 2000 Olympic trials in Sydney and later that same year became Australia's youngest Olympic medallist when she claimed silver in the 100m breaststroke as a 15-year-old.
Swimming Australia sent out a media alert late on Thursday afternoon for a Jones media opportunity at a Brisbane pool on Friday morning.
It is understood Jones has not returned to training since coming back from London and is going to officially end her reign as Australia's breaststroke superstar.
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