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. She would go on to spend seven hours at a hospital getting tested, followed by two days of bed rest. Katie herself later admitted that she felt so poorly during her 1,500 prelim that she almost got out of the pool with 400 meters left to go.
The 800-meter freestyle was Katie's final race at this ill-fated World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Going in, the gold was up for grabs; Katie's American teammate Leah Smith had bested her for the fastest qualifying time and Katie was sandwiched in the lane between her and Simona Quadarella, the Italian swimmer who had prevailed in the 1,500-meter in Katie's absence.Katie started the race well, building a lead that stretched to nearly a body-length by the 300-meter mark.
The hard-fought gold capped off perhaps the toughest meet of her pro career."It wasn't the week that I prepared for and the week that I was expecting to have," Katie told POPSUGAR."I had a really great year of training and so I was expecting to have a really great meet, but some things you just can't control and so I just dealt with the circumstances that I had to deal with." And despite everything, she still came out of it with two silvers and a gold.
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