Summer McIntosh is figuring it out at the Canadian swim trials

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Canada's most dominant Olympic athlete returns to competition this weekend as Summer McIntosh ramps up for next month's world championships at the national swimming trials in Victoria.

The trials, taking place Saturday through Thursday, will determine who represents Canada at the July 27-Aug. 3 world championships in Singapore. McIntosh, the now 18-year-old phenom who won a national-record three Olympic gold medals and a silver last summer in Paris, will have no trouble making the team in any event she wants. But exactly which events she'll choose to swim in Victoria is a matter of some intrigue.

McIntosh has already declared a lofty goal for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles: five individual gold medals. That would match Michael Phelps' legendary haul in 2008 in Beijing, where he added three relay victories to capture a single-Games record eight golds.

McIntosh confirmed last week that she'll soon begin working with Phelps' old coach, Bob Bowman, as part of her ambitious plan. But the project is already in motion as McIntosh has declared her intention to compete in five solo events at the upcoming world championships. She'll use the Canadian trials to help figure out what those five will be.

McIntosh has officially entered seven events at the six-day trials in Victoria, but it's highly unlikely she actually swims all of them. She recently told my CBC Sports colleague Brittany MacLean Campbell that her program for the worlds will definitely include the three events she won at the Paris Olympics (200m butterfly, 200m medley, 400m medley) and the one where she took silver