After winning the Olympic 800m freestyle gold medal for the third time in a row, swimming star Katie Ledecky revealed the prospect of winning more honors in the upcoming competition.
Ledkey, 24, Won the game in 8 minutes and 12.5 seconds on Saturday, and defeated the Australian Ariarne Titmus who defeated her in the 400-meter freestyle earlier in the game by 1.26 seconds.
Complete Tokyo Olympic Games Two gold medals and two silver medals, Ledkey was asked National Broadcasting Corporation How will she decide “whether this is the last swim”.
“Oh, that’s not the last time I swim. I will go for at least 24 years, maybe 28 years,” she replied, referring to the future competitions in Paris and Los Angeles.
“No, I just know this will be the last time I will swim here,” she added.
At a subsequent press conference, she told reporters, “Twenty-four is not old. People stay in this sport until they are in their thirties.”
Ledki was only 15 years old when she won her first championship in the 800m event at the 2012 London Olympics. Four years later, she went on to win four gold medals in Rio de Janeiro competitions.
At the Tokyo Olympics, she demonstrated her dominance in the first women’s 1500m freestyle victory A picture widely shared on social media illustrates this She had enough time to turn around and watch her nearest competitor Erica Sullivan (Erica Sullivan), who won the silver medal.
Her two victories in Tokyo meant that she won a total of seven gold medals, which is the most gold medals won by Olympic swimmers. She is also one of only four swimmers to win three consecutive championships in the same event.
USA Today Noting that her range from the 200-meter freestyle to the first 1,500-meter freestyle meant that she swam 6,200 meters in all rounds in the competition.
This is almost twice the 3,300 meters that swimming legend Michael Phelps swam when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Phelps is the only person who has won more gold medals than Ledkey, with a total of 13 gold medals in his career.
Ledecky previously described the unusual COVID impact she prepared for this year’s competition.Tod Spieker and his wife Cathy Spieker are well-known in California swimming, and they allow her and her teammate Simone Manuel to use him A 25-yard backyard swimming pool in Atherton, California, when they were unable to Stanford University.
NBC Sports reported that the pair trained there six days a week from March 2020 to June 2020. “They are an important part of helping me get here,” she said, according to a report by People.
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