US-American swimming star Katie Ledecky is a seven-time Olympic gold medallist! She made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Having won 7 Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer, she is widely considered the greatest female swimmer of all time. She talks to the Olympic Channel about her accomplishments, always looking to improve, and Tara VanDerveer.
The ongoing doping war of words has continued after Lilly King said that ‘a lot of people here that should not be here’. King made her statements seated next to Ryan Murphy, another US swimmer who appeared to take aim this week at Russia, who have run afoul of doping rules. King later added: ‘I wasn’t racing anyone from a country who should have been banned and instead got a slap on the wrist and rebranding of their national flag.’
Tom Parmenter chats to Team GB’s record-breaking swimming team.
Team GB have now won 10 gold medals at the Tokyo Games and achieved their best-ever Olympic medal haul in swimming with four golds, three silvers, and a bronze.
Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics with a silver in the men’s 4×100 meters medley relay.
Comments from US swimming stars Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel as the pair add to their gold medal collection. A ‘really happy’ Ledecky stormed to her third straight Olympic 800m freestyle title with a dominant swim to bank her fourth medal in Tokyo while Dressel received his third gold of the games after smashing his own world record to win the men’s Olympic 100m butterfly.
Erik Mezick died in December when his truck went over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
Caeleb Dressel said the pressure of the Olympics was “terrifying” but worth it after he finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo games with two more dazzling swims on Sunday.
The 24-year-old American captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games to move into elite company.
Michael Phelps did it three times, highlighted by his record eight golds at the 2008 Beijing Games as did Mark Spitz (seven golds in 1972), East Germany’s Kristin Otto (six golds in 1988), and Matt Biondi (five golds, also in ’88).
Team GB has added two gold medals to its haul at the Tokyo Olympics in new mixed male and female relay races.
Katie Ledecky wants to add to her Olympic medal haul at Paris 2024 – and doesn’t rule out swimming at her home games in LA in 2028.
