Sunday, August 2, 2015

Katie Ledecky Back In The News -- August 2, 2015

Locator: 10100LEDECKY.

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Past Posts

August 13, 2016, past posts. Past posts on Katie (most, but not all):
Updates
December 4, 2017: Ledecky wins her third US Olympic Female Athlete of the Year Award.

August 4, 2015: after setting a world record in one even, advances to the finals in another event

August 3, 2015: Ledecky sets another record; in the 1500-meter freestyle, wasn't really trying.

August 3, 2015: front page story in WSJ.
 
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For background to this post, re-read these earlier posts on Katie Ledecky:
Today, on Fox News, Ms Ledecky was featured as the weekly "Power Player Plus."

The FINA World Championships, in Moscow, are now in progress, August 2 - 9, 2015.

Reach For The Wall is reporting:
Sometime around 6:30 Tuesday evening, Moscow Standard Time, after waiting for her fellow competitors to touch the wall, Katie Ledecky will pull herself out of the championship pool in Kazan, Russia, at the end of women’s 1,500-meter freestyle at the FINA World Championships.
Perhaps she will allow herself a few seconds to celebrate the gold medal she inevitably will have just won. But more likely she won’t — because those few seconds will be too precious to waste. In what will likely be the most difficult and taxing challenge of her brief but storied career, Ledecky, 18, having just raced nearly a mile against some of the top distance swimmers in the world — though none capable of beating her if she is anywhere near her best — will have roughly 20 minutes to recover before climbing the starting blocks again for her semifinal heat in the 200 freestyle.
Her true resting time, though, before having to report to the “race ready” room for the 200, will be closer to five minutes.
Schedule and results here

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