US swimming superstar Katie Ledecky knocks on the door of eternity as she heads to Paris for more Olympic glory. CNN takes a look at the all-time great.
Michael Ledecky remembers the day he was first beaten by his younger sister Katie in the pool, wrenching his goggles from his head and breaking them in two, an odd mixture of pride and anger enveloping him on that August evening. Time hasn’t faded the memory. The race, a 200m freestyle duel which he had instigated, was such a significant moment in his teenage life that he wrote about it for an English high school project.
” A lineage of high achievers Talent, an athlete’s hardware, is not enough in sport. There must be opportunity, a chance to thrive. Success is never self-made. For Ledecky, the stars aligned when the family moved to an affluent Maryland area, where there was access to pools and high-level coaching. An “incubator for dedicated swimmers” is how Ledecky describes the area in her book. Waiting lists for swim clubs were common.
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