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Katie Ledecky

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"I just like to swim…fast. I don't think about the distance."

Watch All of Katie Ledecky Race Video from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Katie Ledecky became the first-ever women’s 1500m free Olympic champion. She won gold in the race at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Watch: All of the American Gold Medal Videos from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Team USA brought home 11 gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Watch the victory videos here.

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Watch All the Olympic Record Swims from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Watch as Kristof Milak, Ragen Smith, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Zhang Yufei, and many others break Olympic Records at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Breakout Names from the 2016 U.S. Open That Became Tokyo 2020 Olympians

The 2016 U.S. Open was held right before the Rio 2016 Olympics for swimmers that *just* missed the team. Some standout names from that meet are now Olympians.

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Olympic Results Digest: All The Medalists & Records Set In The Pool In Tokyo

Everything you need for a quick refresher on what went down over eight days of swimming in Tokyo’s Olympic Aquatics Centre.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Important Message From Summer Finke

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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Emma McKeon Leads All #Tokyo2020 Olympic Swimming Individual Medalists

Emma McKeon leads all Tokyo 2020 Olympic swimming medalists with 7 medals, 4 gold and 3 bronze. Caeleb Dressel had the most golds with five.

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Evaluating Team USA’s Performance in Swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

An American gold medal and World Record in the final men’s 400 medley relay helped heal a lot of wounds from earlier in the meet.

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Tokyo 2020, Oceania Day 8: Aussies Tie 08 Medal Haul, Match Single Games Record

Emma McKeon led the way for the Australians in Tokyo 2020, playing a part in 7 of their 20 podium finishes at the Games.

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SwimSwam’s Top 10 Races of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

For the last day of the 2020 Olympic Games, we brought you our Top 10 swims from Tokyo, Top 5 for men and Top 5 for women

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Tokyo 2020: Watch Day 7 Finals Race Videos

View the Day 7 race videos for the men’s 100 fly, women’s 800 free, women’s 200 back, men’s and women’s 50 free semifinals, as well as the mixed medley relay

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Tokyo Rapid-Fire: Day 7 Swimming Headlines

2 World records and 1 Olympic record went down last night. Read on for more of the biggest swimming headlines from day 7 Tokyo 2020 finals.

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#Tokyo2020 Cheat Sheet for Non-Swimmers Day 7: 2 More World Records Fall

American Caeleb Dressel was responsible for 1 of the 2 World Records that fell on the penultimate day of the Tokyo2020 Olympics.

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Tokyo 2020 Olympics Day 7 Medal Table: US Approaching 30 Medal Mark

With Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel claiming gold medals on day 7, the US is now approaching the 30 medal mark in Tokyo.

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Tokyo 2020, Oceania Day 7: Titmus Collects Silver During Third Ledecky Matchup

While she didn’t make it to the top of the podium, Ariarne Titmus still pulled off an impressive Commonwealth record of 8:13.83.

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