HAVING completed a life-long ambition of making it onto the podium at an Olympic Games, few could blame Jazz Carlin for wanting to hang up her swimming goggles and calling it a day.

However, retiring from the sport is the furthest thing from the 25-year-old’s mind as she continues to come to grips with being a double Olympic silver medallist and Swindon’s most successful Olympian.

Carlin, who now lives in Bradford on Avon to be closer to her Bath University training facility, only returned home on Tuesday and has been caught up in a media whirlwind since.

And while she will be 29 by the time the Olympics return in Tokyo, she is not ruling out the possibility of being there but will take each major championship as it comes.

“It is a bit mad really, I can’t believe Rio has come and gone now,” she told the Advertiser.

“The experience I had at the Olympics, it was one of those moments I will never forget.

“I want to see how far I can push myself and see what I can do. I would love to give it a go and see if I can go for another four years.

“Obviously, you can only do what your body can do but I am going to give it absolutely everything.

“There are World Championships and Commonwealth Games and I will take each year as it comes.

“It is about sitting down with my coach now and planning the next four-year cycle and trying out a few different things and working on the little things to improve even more.”

Carlin knocked almost two seconds off her personal best time as she claimed silver in the 400m freestyle with a time of three minutes 58.07 seconds before following that up with the same colour medal in the 800m freestyle with a time of 8:16.17.

While a holiday is top of her wish list following her exploits in Brazil, the Tigersharks swimmer is already thinking about returning to training to get even better.

“Age is just a number and I am still improving at 25 and that doesn’t happen very often,” she added.

“In my 400, I dropped two seconds and that is not heard of.

“I am not thinking about retirement. After Rio, I can’t wait to get back into training and give it everything and go to more international events to compete with the best in the world.

“I am really looking forward to the next four years and seeing what I can get out of the sport.”