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copy of her book Just Add Water at Ledecky’s ”Conversation With CBS' Tony Dokoupil” event at the 92NY Center in New York City. Katie Ledecky , you’ve just won two more Gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics to bring your career Olympic gold medal haul to nine. What do you want to do next?
That’s because getting more girls to swim isn’t simply about trying to find the next Ledecky. That’s going to be hard to do since she is quite unique.calculated the odds of making the U.S. Olympic swimming team being around one in 15 million. Heck, as a young girl, Ledecky didn’t even think that she would be this Ledecky—meaning the Ledecky that she is now.
Now, those competing against her at that young age didn’t end up having the swimming career that Ledecky has had. But there’s a decent chance that those who swam regularly as girls would keep swimming well into adulthood.
Then, there are mental and emotional health benefits of swimming. Studies have shown how swimming can improve your sleep, mood and ability to manage your stress. Ledecky spoke of how swimming has helped her focus, set goals such as specific times and achieve them.
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