{"id":3658,"date":"2024-08-10T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2024-08-10T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T23:54:00","slug":"katie-ledecky-reacts-to-michael-phelps-claiming-other-countries-are-catching-up-to-the-us-in-swimming-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3658","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky reacts to Michael Phelps claiming other countries are catching up to the US in swimming at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Ledecky has responded to Michael Phelps after the American claimed that the other nations are now catching up to the standard the US swimming athletes set over the years. Ledecky did not agree entirely with the opinion, pointing out that the US still tops the leaderboard in gold and total medal count.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Ledecky, the 27-year-old swimmer from the US who earned the title of the most decorated female swimmer in history, competed in her fourth edition of the Olympics in Paris. She, who unexpectedly won the 800m freestyle gold at the 2012 London Olympics, hit the Paris waters as the 800m and 1500m freestyle top seed.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky swam the 1500m freestyle in a gold-winning time of 15:30.02 (Olympic record) and won the 800m freestyle event in 8:11.04. However, she lost her gold to\u00a0Australian swimmer\u00a0Ariarne Titmus in the 400m freestyle and clinched the silver in the 4x200m freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps, statistically the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time, was present to watch the US swim team in action at\u00a0the Olympics. According to him, swimmers from other nations are already catching up with the trailblazers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA lot of things that we\u2019ve done as a country for so long, the other people are catching up.\u201d (via the TikTok post of Sports Seriously)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Ledecky didn\u2019t speak in the same line because the US\u00a0swimming\u00a0team topped the leaderboard at the 2024 Games, like the previous years when Phelps dominated. The total medal count of the US stands at 28 and Australia trails at No. 2 with 19.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, USA swimming came out on top of the medal count once again, both the gold medals and the total medal count. So, we\u2019re very happy with the outcome,\u201d she responded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd85\ud83e\udd47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BtFy4qT1RR\">pic.twitter.com\/BtFy4qT1RR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SWIMNERD (@SwimNerds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwimNerds\/status\/1822229402534514872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><label for=\"sk_embed__tweet__0\">Expand Tweet<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-inread\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Katie Ledecky: \u201cThat\u2019s what you want at the Olympics, you want to race the best of the best\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-inside\">\n<p>Katie Ledecky faced an upset in the 400m freestyle behind her Tokyo Olympic rival Ariarne Titmus and rising star of Canada, Summer McIntosh. Several other nations like Great Britain and China also sent their best at the 2024 quadrennial Games. In a conversation after the Games, Ledecky agreed that the swimmers are getting faster and competing with the best of the best would be exciting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s learning how to train in different ways and get faster. There\u2019s more specificity in terms of events and what people are focussing on. So, it just creates really good competition. And that\u2019s what you want at the Olympics. You want to race the best of the best,\u201d she said. (via Sports Seriously TikTok)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Katie Ledecky holds the world record in 800m and 1500m freestyle and women\u2019s swimming record with eight individual gold in the Olympics and 26 overall medals at the World Championships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-inside\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Ledecky has responded to Michael Phelps after the American claimed that the other nations are now catching up to the standard the US swimming athletes set over the years. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}