Grant Hackett will announce his retirement from the greatest of swimming careers.
The Australian national swimming team captain will announce his retirement at Swimming Australia’s swimmer of the year awards in Sydney tonight. HGrant Hackett, 28, has spent the last two months weighing up his future after just missing out on a history-making third straight Olympic 1500m freestyle title in Beijing earlier this year.
He has recently taken up a job reading the weekend sports news on the Nine Network in Melbourne and pointed to a career in finance with long-time sponsor Westpac.
Hackett has also revealed he holds political ambitions and would like one day to become a Cabinet minister in federal Parliament.
Sources: Daily Telegraph, LiveNews.com.au, Reuters, Bloomberg.
