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Coe delight at Thorpe's return for 2012 Games

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London Olympic chief Sebastian Coe is delighted that Ian Thorpe is aiming to swim at next year's Games and has claimed some of the credit for helping persuade the five-time gold medallist to end his retirement.

Thorpe, Australia's most successful Olympian, announced his comeback in May after four years out of competitive swimming and is back in training in Switzerland.

"Ian Thorpe is arguably the greatest swimmer ever," the chairman of the London organizing committee (LOCOG) told reporters at Australia's parliament yesterday.

"His abilities and skills have inspired a generation of young swimmers in London. Ian Thorpe competing in the Games in London is a fantastic prospect."

The 28-year-old Thorpe said when he announced his return that a visit to the London pool had helped inspire him to return to the water after missing out on the Beijing Olympics.

"I had the great pleasure of taking him around the Olympic park just a few months ago and into the aquatic centre," Coe recalled.

"We walked onto the floor of the swimming pool and I sensed then that he was sort of looking at the facilities and looking at the aquatic centre and thinking 'maybe this isn't one to sit out'."

Coe, a twice Olympic 1,500 meters athletics champion and former politician, said London organizers had been looking to incorporate successful elements of all previous Summer Games, including the much-lauded 2000 Sydney Olympics.

"Clearly I recognize from Sydney that it is the high water mark for a sporting event that other sporting events, no matter what sport or wherever in the world, is measured against," Coe added.

"From Sydney I want the party atmosphere that was driven by athlete-led performance in the venues, and that permeated the city and I think the whole country."

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