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    5-Time Gold Medalist Missy Franklin Retires From Swimming

    The 23-year-old became an Olympic sensation as a teen during the 2012 London games, where she broke a world record and became the first woman to win four gold medals in a single Olympics in any sport.
    by Vanessa Romo Dec 19, 2018 2 minutes
    Swimming champion Missy Franklin announced her retirement from the sport in an emotional letter to ESPN.com on Wednesday. She is 23.

    Five-time Olympic gold medalist and world record-holder Missy Franklin announced her retirement from swimming in an impassioned letter to ESPN.com on Wednesday, citing chronic shoulder pain that has ravaged her body and psyche over the last years of her career.

    "It took me a long time to say the words, 'I am retiring.' A long, long time. But now I'm ready,"

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