{"id":474916,"date":"2021-06-04T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=474916"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:00:41","slug":"breeja-larson-announces-retirement-from-swimming-with-feeling-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/breeja-larson-announces-retirement-from-swimming-with-feeling-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeja Larson Announces Retirement From Swimming With ‘Feeling of Peace’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breeja Larson<\/strong> was hoping to put in a solid year of training with Bob Bowman<\/strong> and build some momentum heading into Olympic Trials as a contender.<\/p>\n

But the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.<\/p>\n

Larson was not able to join Bowman\u2019s group, trained on her own for several months before the International Swimming League (ISL) season and made the decision that she wasn\u2019t going to be ready for the trials.<\/p>\n

With this Olympic year likely the end of the road for Larson, she announced her retirement from swimming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just kept having this feeling of peace when I thought about being done,\u201d Breeja Larson told Swimming World<\/em>. \u201cI had been training up to the ISL by myself. It was getting really tough. The ISL was not a great racing experience for me. I was pretty disappointed that I wasn\u2019t able to stay in the right shape by myself. I had this intense moment of stress on what to do with all that I looked into. Then I had a moment where I thought about retirement and I had so much peace. I was looking forward to things I was doing outside of the water. I wish I had the resources to keep training, but I think my heart was pulling me to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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