What does American swimming icon Katie Ledecky have still left to demonstrate? Not a lot.
Her medal history is eye-popping: 7 Olympics golds and three Olympic silvers to go with 21 environment golds and five silvers. She owns the environment very long- and brief-system information in the 800-meter freestyle and 1500-meter freestyle. No discussion making an attempt to rank the finest North American athletes of the 21st century is full with no her.
And yet, not only is Ledecky primed for one more big Olympics this summertime in Paris, she also indicated to NBC recently that she could possibly not be done soon after that.
“The (2028) Olympics staying in LA is quite appealing. Not incredibly a lot of athletes get an opportunity to compete in a house Online games,” Ledecky reported. “I definitely at this stage am preparing on going by 2028… no matter if I compete in one particular party, multiple occasions, a relay, whatsoever.”
Ledecky turned 27 on St. Patrick’s Working day, and will be 31 by the time Los Angeles rolls all around. Only three women—the United States’s Dara Torres in 2000, the Netherlands’ Inge de Bruijn in 2004, and West Germany’s Ursula Happe in 1956—have ever gained a swimming gold past the age of 30.
If there is certainly everyone in swimming unbound by the sport’s history, nevertheless, it can be Ledecky.
