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Katie Ledecky Wins Her 8th Gold Medal in 1500-Meter Freestyle at Paris Olympics

The Olympic swimmer said it’s ‘never easy to win a gold medal’ after earning her eighth.

The victory broke a personal record of hers, as Katie previously swam a 15:35.35 at the Tokyo Olympic Games three years prior. I was just kind of repeating their names in my head, just thinking of all the practices that we’ve done and all the confidence that I get from training, from being next to them and racing them.” The swimmer admitted that she “never thought that [she] would even make one Olympics when [she] first started swimming, let alone have the opportunity to go into a fourth.”

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