Michael Phelps is aiming to compete in a fifth Olympics next year in Rio, although the 18-time Olympic champion won’t swim in the world championships this summer.
Phelps confirmed his intention to make one last run at the Olympics on Wednesday. The 29-year-old swimmer is in Arizona to compete in his first meet since serving a six-month suspension by USA Swimming after a second drunken driving arrest last fall.
But Phelps says he won’t be swimming at the world meet in Russia in August as part of the punishment set forth by the sport’s US governing body. That is the last major international meet before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
Phelps is back in Arizona, where he attended an in-patient alcohol rehabilitation program after being arrested on DUI charges in his hometown of Baltimore last September.
