Watch out - Lethal Leisel has taken the woman's perogative and changed her mind, Nicole Jeffery at The Australian tells us tomorrow Down Under. 

Former world champion and record-holder, Jones had said that her days of 200m breaststroke were all but over and that, after a 2009 break from top-flight competition (though not world-class times), she would focus on sprint events. 

Jeffery reveals that Jones even had a deal with her coach Rohan Taylor that she could abandon the 200m. Now, though, the Olympic 100m champion tells The Australian that she feels a sense of responsibility to the Dolphins and knows that the 200m is a medal-winning event. 

She tells Jeffery: "I've been doing more (training) sessions because at trials I was getting really tired towards the end of the week and I need to make sure I am getting through the meet and holding up. By the time I got to the 200 (in Sydney in March) I was just exhausted. I wasn't planning on doing the 200m (in Delhi). I just entered it in case everything else didn't go to plan, and we just did it anyway."

Since then, Taylor has boosted Jones's endurance training and called on her "patriotism". Jones is currently ranked second in the 200m on the early 2010 lists, on 2:23.45, to 2:22.91 for Olympic champion Rebecca Soni.

The two are set to clash at Pan Pacific trials in Irvine, California, in August, at the end of a season in which Soni, coached by dave Salo, is trying out something new: she is training just once a day. Her first serious test will be US trials in July.