Don’t expect the same Michael Phelps in his return to swimming after a nearly two-year retirement.

Even if Phelps’ comeback is a success, it will be different this time around.

No more swimming seven or eight events at the Olympics or world championships. No more grueling individual medleys.

This time, it’s about taking on fewer and shorter races than the 22-time Olympic medalist did in his prime.

At 28, Phelps is far from being too old to dive into the pool. In recent years, swimmers have successfully competed into their 30s and in the case of Dara Torres, who was 41 at her last Olympics in 2008, won medals.

Phelps will compete for the first time since the 2012 London Games at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26.

Bob Bowman, the swimmer’s longtime coach, told The Associated Press on Monday that Phelps is entered in three events — the 50- and 100-meter freestyles and the 100 butterfly.

“I think he’s just going to test the waters a little bit and see how it goes,” Bowman said. “I wouldn’t say it’s a full-fledged comeback.”

Phelps’ camp is downplaying his return, which had been rumored ever since the most decorated Olympian in history returned to training last fall and re-entered the U.S. drug-testing program. His six-month waiting period to be eligible for competition ended in March.

“Since 2004, there’s been an extraordinary amount of pressure for him to perform a certain way,” Torres told the AP. “That’s a great move that they’re downplaying it a little bit.”