MESA, Ariz. — The 18-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps is aiming to swim in a fifth Olympics next year in Rio, although he will not compete in the world championships this summer.
Phelps, 29, confirmed his intention to make one last run at the Olympics on Wednesday. He is in Arizona to compete in his first meet since serving a six-month suspension by U.S.A. Swimming after a second arrest on a drunken-driving charge last fall.
But Phelps said he would not be swimming at the world meet in Russia in August as part of the punishment set forth by the sport’s United States governing body.