FUKUOKA: Australian swim star Ariarne Titmus said on Friday that she was “feeling the buzz” for the first time since winning double Olympic gold in 2021 as she prepares for the world championships.

Titmus stunned Katie Ledecky of the US to win the women’s 200m and 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Games and she is aiming for more glory at the worlds, which begin on Sunday in Fukuoka.

Titmus’s first race is set to be 400m freestyle showdown featuring defending champion Ledecky and Canadian Summer McIntosh, who broke Titmus’s world record earlier this year. Titmus won four golds at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

“This is probably the first time since the Olympics that I’m really feeling the buzz to race. I think off the back of the Olympics, last year we had the Commonwealth Games and I didn’t feel it as much as this year.

“I feel really raring to go, which is a nice feeling,” she added.

Published in Dawn, July 22th, 2023