Katie Ledecky is one of the most accomplished Olympians of all time, but bad news for the world's other swimmers: The seven-time Olympic gold medalist is more athletic now.
But Ledecky — fresh off the sixth and seventh gold medals of her Olympic career at the just-completed Tokyo Games and the owner of two extant world records — had not become arguably the greatest female swimmer in history by defying her coaches. So rather than reminding Nesty of all that, she agreed to endeavor to become more athletic.
At an age when most distance swimmers have long since retired, or at least given up any notion of catching their younger selves, Ledecky is defying history and accepted swimming wisdom by getting faster in her mid-20s. And she’s on the verge of forcing another recalibration of her unparalleled career by next summer’s Paris Olympics, which would be her fourth Summer Games.
She had won four more medals — golds in the 800 and 1,500 frees, silvers in the 400 free and the 4x200 free relay — but her times in the three individual finals were a combined 10 seconds slower than five years earlier at the Rio de Janeiro Games, where, at 19, she had been at the height of her powers. And her runner-up finish in the 400 to Titmus, who caught and passed her over the final 50 meters, marked the first time she had been beaten in an individual Olympics final.
— which he believed had become “kind of choppy” over the preceding years. More than just an opinioned observation, the statement was borne out by the data. Asked if he thought the reined-in kick might be at least partially a concession to Ledecky’s age, Barbini said, “I don’t know that Katie makes concessions to anything.”
But her coach had a different answer. “I’m pretty sure she is,” Nesty said. “She does that all the time.”Ledecky recently purchased an electric keyboard, hoping to rekindle her childhood love of piano, after having gotten away from playing while at Stanford and during her transition to a professional career.
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