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A Tricycle, Pickles, And A Backyard Pool: Katie Ledecky’s Olympic Training

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3.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics is tonight, and one of the biggest stars to watch on the U.S. team is five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky. Today, The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach joins us to tell the story of the backyard pool where Ledecky kept her training going in the spring of 2020, the bond she formed with the family who shared the same space, and how the whole thing could impact her pursuit of history in Tokyo.

Read Nicole Auerbach’s full story about Katie Ledecky: https://theathletic.com/2609313/2021/05/26/katie-ledecky-olympics-tokyo-swimming/?source=theleadpodcast

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0:40.0

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0:46.0

The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics is tonight.

0:56.0

And one of the stars who will be headlining the US team is five time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ladecki.

1:03.0

Greatness and dominance confirmed again as Katie Ladecki is going back to the Olympic Games representing Team USA.

1:13.0

Today, the Athletics Nicole Hourback on the backyard pool where Ladecki kept her training going when the world shut down in 2020.

1:22.0

The bond she formed with the family that shared the same space and how the whole experience could impact Ladecki's pursuit of Olympic history in Tokyo.

1:32.0

From wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Friday, July 23rd, and this is the lead.

1:44.0

Neniko, you normally cover college sports for the Athletic and you're doing some Olympic coverage this summer.

1:50.0

But we have to ask because we saw this on Twitter, how did you get screeners of season two of Ted Lasso?

1:56.0

Some of us are just influencers. What can I say? I think I was probably one of the first people start watching it because I already had made an Apple TV account.

2:06.0

So I just convinced every single person I worked with and then every single person in my family to watch it. And I guess Apple noticed.

2:13.0

I love that so much. It shows so good. And well, I mean, speaking of influencers, we're here to talk about one of the biggest names on the US Olympic team.

2:23.0

A summer who has a chance to make some history in Tokyo, Katie Ladecki. Now you recently wrote about her experience last year during the pandemic.

2:32.0

And what it might tell us about Ladecki as a person and competitor. So let's go back to the spring of 2020.

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