Tag: Katie Ledecky

Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky better known as Katie Ledecky had her Olympic debut in 2012 when she was only 15 years old. Since then she has won 15 gold medals and broke 11 world records and is clearly one of the favourites for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio.

Katie Ledecky chats with the media ahead of the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series at Mesa on April 13, 2016.

Nineteen-year-old Katie Ledecky has emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, breaking multiple world records in races short and long. What’s her secret? asks Robert Sullivan. One of the reasons it is difficult to see precisely what makes Katie Ledecky perhaps the greatest athlete in America, and maybe the planet, is that when she comes out of…

For 72 hours here, Katie Ledecky got to see how the other half lives. The half that doesn’t necessarily need to swim 70,000 grueling yards every week in practice to achieve its goals. The half that measures its times in fractions of seconds, not whole ones. The half that doesn’t set or threaten world records…

When Katie Ledecky gets ready to swim, people stop what they are doing. The clock becomes a central player in the event as people monitor it to see where she’s at in relation to her best time — which is a world record in most cases. The noise builds palpably from the start of the…