The champion breaststroker needs just one more Olympic Games medal to equal Thorpe as the most successful Australian swimmer of all time.

''I was talking to my mum about it the other day, she said that was the only record I don't have,'' Jones said.

''To equal Ian Thorpe's record would be amazing.

''I would like to think I was a pretty good chance in the 100 metre breaststroke, so I've been training my arse off.

''It's a nice little tick on the CV.''

Thorpe won nine Olympic Games medals in his stellar career before he failed in his bid to qualify for London.

Jones was in Canberra last week in camp with the Australian women's relay squad at the Australian Institute of Sport.

She has already reached her first goal of qualifying for an unprecedented fourth Olympic Games.

At 26, she is a senior member in the women's swimming ranks.

Jones finished second at the national championships in the 100m breastroke, and is also in the running for the 4x100m medley.

Jones was a fresh-faced 14-year-old when she made her Olympic Games debut in Sydney in 2000, but it wasn't until eight years later in Beijing that she broke through for her first individual gold medal.

''I'm much more relaxed and I don't have a lot of pressure on myself, which is nice,'' she said.

''I didn't enjoy the experience very much in my first three Olympics.

''In Beijing, I still hadn't won an individual gold medal and that was sort of weighing on me a lot.

''I've won individual medals, I've won relays, I've done everything, so I just want to take it all in.''

Jones is unsure if she will continue after London but is enjoying her mentoring role with the country's next generation of swimmers.

''I think they see me as bit of an old chook,'' Jones laughed.

''I like the role of looking after the young ones.