NANTERRE, France (AP) — Another romp for Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh. A gold medal for American Kate Douglass. And, to cap things off, a record-breaking n
United States' women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team members Erin Gemmell, Katie Ledecky , Paige Madden and Claire Weinstein, pose with their silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympic s, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Nanterre, France. NANTERRE, France — Another romp for Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh. A gold medal for American Kate Douglass . And, to cap things off, a record-breaking night for Katie Ledecky .
Still, in her next-to-last event of these games, Ledecky broke the mark she shared with fellow Americans Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and Jenny Thompson. The 27-year-old now has eight golds, four silvers and one bronze over four Olympics, with every intention of swimming on to Los Angeles in 2028. It was the fourth swimming gold for the world's most dominant swimming nation, to go along with 11 silver medals and six bronzes.She started the Paris Games by helping the Americans win silver in 4x100 freestyle relay. She grabbed the best color of all Thursday.
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