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Past Posts
December 4, 2017: Ledecky wins her third US Olympic Female Athlete of the Year Award.
August 13, 2016, past posts. Past posts on Katie (most, but not all):
- August 9, 2016: the Williston-Ledecky connection
- August 9, 2016: she has never lost a race on the big stage
- August 7, 2016: smashes her own world record in the 400-meter freestyle
- July 30, 2016: long NY Times article on Ledecky
- June 27, 2016: cruises into 400-meter freestyle finals
- June 14, 2016: winning another tournament; Ledecky, first; Franklin, fifth
- June 4, 2016: compare Ledecky with Emil Zatopek
- April 22, 2016: youngest person on Times 100 list of most influential people
- April 19, 2016: wins 800-meter freestyle by almost 15 seconds
- March 31, 2016: featured in Vogue
- March 26, 2016: 19 reasons why Ledecky is cooler than most kids
- March 8, 2016: feature story in The Washington Post
- December 15, 2015: video of her 1,000-year freestyle
- December 13, 2015: sets all-time record in the 1000-yard freestyle
- November 23, 2015: named athlete of the year
- August 15, 2015: 8:08, 800-meter
- August 15, 2015: destroys world mark in 800-meter freestyle
- August 11, 2015: the new face of swimming; Los Angeles Times
- August 8, 2015: 538 Sports -- get Ledecky a time machine
- August 7, 2015: 200-meter freestyle; wins; video
- August 7, 2015: takes first in 800-meter preliminaries
- August 6, 2015: the Ledecky slam
- August 5, 2015: wins the 200-free world title
- August 3, 2015: Ledecky wins 1,500-meter freestyle by 27 seconds
- August 3, 2015: Ledecky makes front page of The WSJ
- August 4, 2015: feature story in national swim journal
- August 2, 2015: tracked here
- September 19, 2014: power player of the week, Chris Wallace, Fox News
- August 9, 2014: Ledecky breaks 400-meter freestyle record
- August 8, 2014: Ledecky beats Missy Franklin in the 200-meter freestyle
- May 7, 2014: Ledecky to enter Stanford
- April 7, 2014: Ledecky helps celebrate grand opening of the 50-meter pool at the new Williston Area Recreation Center
- March 28, 2014: Ledecky to be at grand opening of Williston Area Recreation Center
- October 31, 2013: The Williston Wire picks up a story on Ledecky
- June 30, 2013: Ledecky breaks one of the oldest national championship swimming records; beats teammate by 20 seconds in the 1,500 freestyle
- July 18, 2012: just in time for the NBC Olympics coverage
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.
Original Post
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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