A few weeks after American Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, his predecessor as the king of world swimming has started studying for a university degree.
Australian Ian Thorpe, who retired in 2006 after a career that included five Olympic gold medals, 11 world titles and 13 world records, is a Bachelor of Arts psychology and linguistics student at Macquarie University in Sydney.
After dropping out of school as a 14-year-old to focus on his swimming and being home-schooled during his career in the pool, the 25-year-old Thorpe was expected to eventually major in psychology.
"He is just trying a few things on for size and seeing what he likes," a university spokeswoman was quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Thorpe, who is also a television presenter, was in Beijing to witness some of Phelps' record gold haul last month. Phelps broke fellow American Mark Spitz's previous record of seven gold medals from the 1972 Munich Games.
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