Swedish swimming star Sarah Sjöström said she’s unlikely to defend her Olympic 100m butterfly title in Tokyo, but plans to swim freestyle races, after breaking her right elbow slipping and falling on ice on Feb. 6.
Sjöström, the world-record holder in the 100m fly, 50m freestyle and 100m free, set a goal to race the 50m and 100m frees at the Olympics but didn’t rule out the 100m fly entirely, according to Swedish media translations of an audio interview.
Sjöström’s agency confirmed that’s her plan as of Monday.
Sjöström lowered her own 100m fly world record in becoming the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic swimming title in 2016, prevailing by .