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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Aussie swimmer Thorpe to return for 2012 Olympics AFP - Thursday, February 3 Send IM Story Print SYDNEY (AFP) - – Five-time Olympic freestyle champion Ian Thorpe announced his return to swimming for the 2012 London games, saying he could "actually taste" his desire to compete. "Ian Thorpe is very much back," said John Borghetti of sponsor Virgin Blue, opening a joint press conference with Thorpe on Wednesday. "He registered this morning with the international drug testing register and he's planning to win lots of gold at the 2012 Olympics." Australia's most decorated Olympian, Thorpe said he decided to return to the sport back in September and started training on the sly, using eight different pools to dodge suspicion and telling friends to "lie through their teeth" about his plans. Key facts on Ian Thorpe Touring the "extraordinary" Olympic swimming venue in London sealed his decision, he said. "I could actually taste it -- I haven't felt like swimming like that for a very long time." He sketched out a plan for his comeback with sports psychologist Deirdre Anderson, who helped counsel him through his 2006 retirement, and was secretly trained via text message by Australia's team coach Leigh Nugent. Thorpe was so determined to minimise the pressure on himself he didn't tell his family until just a few weeks ago, and Nugent supervised his training just once in the four months. "It hasn't been something that I have taken lightly, making a decision to return to competitive swimming," Thorpe told reporters. "I never thought this would happen. I never thought that I'd be swimming in a competitive way again." "I'm very glad that I am. I'm glad I spent four years away from the pool. I needed those four years," added Thorpe, 28. Nicknamed "Thorpedo", the imposing freestyler retired from swimming in November 2006 aged 24 after a decade in the sport, following a long period of illness and introspection. Thorpe said he was coming back as a "slightly more mature" person and said he was being driven by a desire "to be able to perform again", not the lure of sponsorship money. He said his focus would be on swimming the relay for Australia -- an event in which he famously broke the American stranglehold and bagged gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics -- over both 100 and 200 metres. Thorpe said he did not believe he had enough time to prepare for the 400 metres, his favourite event, but would instead train as a sprinter, something he said "may surprise a lot of people". Sporting a deep tan, the self-effacing Thorpe seemed at ease with the huge press contingent, joking that contesting another Olympics was on his list of must-dos before he turned 30, along with joining a rock band and becoming a pilot. "This seemed the most realistic," he laughed. He refused to detail what times he was clocking, saying only that he had lost five kilograms (11 pounds) and was "swimming faster than when I begun, which is a very good sign because I was actually pretty bad." Thorpe would not be drawn on his famed rivalry with the United States' Michael Phelps, always the major threat in his competitive past. "You say there's a rivalry, I think of the American team as my friends as well. We wish them well, but not too well, (that) can be the official message." Nugent said Thorpe would have to wait nine months before he'd be cleared by doping authorities to compete, meaning he would have just five months to hone himself against other swimmers before the Olympic trials next March. His first overseas tournament is likely to be a FINA World Cup event in November, with his first Australian contest to be the following month. "Ian looks to be in pretty good shape, and I know hes been enjoying being back in the water," Nugent said. "We know he is an outstanding athlete, and with application and commitment he will make a success of this comeback." Thorpe plans to do most of his training in Abu Dhabi and Europe ahead of the London Olympic trials and acknowledged there was a long road ahead. "It's big, it's enormous, but I'm prepared," he said. "I've had an almost flawless career and I've put that at risk. It would have been a lot easier to sit on that and not do a thing but I still have a desire, there's things in swimming that I haven't done that I would like to achieve." London Olympic chief Sebastian Coe said it was "great news" that Thorpe planned to return to competition. "It's great news that Ian is making a comeback at the London Games next year," Coe said. "He has always been an outstanding competitor, a legend in his sport and the British fans remember his extraordinary performance at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002." Five-time Olympic champion Thorpe won 11 world titles and set 13 long-course records before announcing his retirement from swimming in November 2006 after 10 years on the Australian team, saying he had lost the desire to compete. His 400m freestyle world record, set at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, is still just 1/100th of a second behind the current record, which was achieved with a banned bodysuit at the 2009 world championships in Rome. 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