Hackett not rushing
Champion Australian swimmer Grant Hackett will not come back into competition too early despite his speedy recovery from shoulder surgery.
Hackett’s manager Denis Cotterell said that while the reigning 1500m Olympic champion has been training strongly, he will not race until much later this year.
“He’s probably ahead of what I thought he’d be doing. I really just wanted to kick over slowly, and he is, but the volume’s picking up, even if it’s slow volume,” Cotterell told ABC Sport.
“I’m not even considering anything for six months at least, but it’ll go entirely on how he adapts to his training and how he builds up.”
Hackett ruled himself out of March’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in November last year, opting for surgery with his long term career in mind.
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