Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, who beat Michael Phelps in Phelps’ last individual Olympic race, will reportedly skip June’s world swimming championships and is uncertain whether he will bid for the 2024 Olympics.

Schooling, 26, is prioritizing this month’s Southeast Asian Games and bypassing worlds in Budapest, according to Yahoo News Singapore. Schooling’s agent hasn’t responded to a Wednesday request for confirmation.

He was also bidding for the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September, but organizers announced last week that they were postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Schooling said last month that these might be his last Southeast Asian Games.

The Southeast Asian Games are typically held in odd years, but the 2021 edition was postponed to this year. The next Southeast Asian Games are in 2023, which means Schooling is considering not swimming through the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“Right now the question is, OK, do I swim until Paris, or do we stop and reassess and see where we’re going to go after Asian Games?” Schooling said in a Yahoo News Singapore video interview before the Asian Games were postponed. “ If this schedule persists, I don’t think I can make it to 2024.”

Schooling was referencing balancing training with his mandatory national service in Singapore, which began this year and lasts two years.

In 2016, Schooling handed Phelps his first defeat in an Olympic 100m butterfly to become Singapore’s first Olympic gold medalist. He took bronze at the 2017 Worlds, then was eliminated in the heats at the 2019 Worlds and the Tokyo Olympics.

Schooling swam in high school for the Bolles Sharks in Jacksonville, Florida, and was club teammates with Caeleb Dressel, who succeeded Schooling as Olympic 100m butterfly champion.

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NBC Sports and Peacock combine to air live coverage of the 2022-23 Alpine skiing season, including races on the World Cup, which starts this weekend.

Coverage begins with the traditional season-opening giant slaloms in Soelden, Austria, this Saturday and Sunday, streaming live on Peacock.

The first of four stops in the U.S. — the most in 26 years — is Thanksgiving weekend with a women’s giant slalom and slalom in Killington, Vermont. The men’s tour visits Beaver Creek, Colorado the following week, as well as Palisades Tahoe, California, and Aspen, Colorado after worlds in Courchevel and Meribel, France.

NBC Sports platforms will broadcast all four U.S. stops in the Alpine World Cup season, plus four more World Cups in other ski and snowboard disciplines. All Alpine World Cups in Austria will stream live on Peacock.

Mikaela Shiffrin, who last year won her fourth World Cup overall title, is the headliner. Shiffrin, who has 74 career World Cup race victories, will try to close the gap on the only Alpine skiers with more: Lindsey Vonn (82) and Ingemar Stenmark (86). Shiffrin won an average of five times per season the last three years and is hopeful of racing more often this season.

On the men’s side, 25-year-old Swiss Marco Odermatt returns after becoming the youngest man to win the overall, the biggest annual prize in ski racing, since Marcel Hirscher won the second of his record eight in a row in 2013.

2022-23 Alpine Skiing World Cup Broadcast Schedule Schedule will be added to as the season progresses. All NBC Sports TV coverage also streams live on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.

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Katie Ledecky joined a select group by earning her second Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award.

Ledecky took the honor after winning all four of her races at June’s world championships and breaking Natalie Coughlin‘s female record for career world swimming medals (Ledecky is up to 22, including 19 golds).

She also became the first swimmer to win five consecutive world titles in one individual event by extending a decade-long win streak in the 800m freestyle.

Ledecky, who previously won AP Female Athlete of the Year in 2017, edged out 400m hurdles world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in balloting. The two tied in total points, but Ledecky got the nod based on 10 first-place votes to McLaughlin-Levrone’s nine. A’ja Wilson, the WNBA and world championship MVP, finished third.

It was decided by a panel of 40 sports writers and editors from news outlets across the country.

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Ledecky became the sixth woman to win AP Female Athlete of the Year multiple times in the last 30 years.

The others were Serena Williams (five times), Annika Sörenstam (three), Simone Biles (two), Candace Parker (two) and Lorena Ochoa (two). Five won AP Male Athlete of the Year multiple times in that span: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps and LeBron James.

Amy Van Dyken-Rouen, who won in 1996 after a quadruple gold performance at the Atlanta Olympics, is the only other female swimmer to win in the last 50 years.

The last Winter Olympian to win was Lindsey Vonn in 2010.

Ledecky goes into 2023 one individual world title shy of Phelps’ record 15. Competition may be tougher at July’s worlds in Japan if Australian rival Ariarne Titmus takes part after skipping this year’s worlds to focus on the Commonwealth Games. Rising Canadian Summer McIntosh, 16, has also become a threat in the 400m free.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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