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Can Katie Ledecky Break The 8-Minute Barrier?

We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. So far in these Olympics, the 19-year-old freestyle swimming sensation Katie Ledecky has won four medals for the U.S., three of them gold, and shattered the 400-meter world record in stunning fashion. She has just one event left in these games, and it’s the […]

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Ledecky Has Company In A Renewed Assault On Swimming’s Records

We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. While Michael Phelps’s winning of his 19th gold medal may be the feel-good story of the swimming pool not involving Yusra Mardini so far, the most significant development of the opening weekend of swimming is surely the sport’s […]

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Ledecky Has Company In A Renewed Assault On Swimming’s Records

We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. While Michael Phelps’s winning of his 19th gold medal may be the feel-good story of the swimming pool not involving Yusra Mardini so far, the most significant development of the opening weekend of swimming is surely the sport’s […]

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Katie Ledecky Is The Present And The Future Of Swimming

“She has a chance.” That was the best the commentators at the 2012 Olympics could muster for the introduction of 15-year-old Katie Ledecky, who entered the finals of the 800-meter freestyle event as a virtual unknown. She had the third-fastest time in qualifying, but had no track record and no other medals in a year […]

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Katie Ledecky Is The Present And The Future Of Swimming

“She has a chance.” That was the best the commentators at the 2012 Olympics could muster for the introduction of 15-year-old Katie Ledecky, who entered the finals of the 800-meter freestyle event as a virtual unknown. She had the third-fastest time in qualifying, but had no track record and no other medals in a year […]

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