'I wouldn’t really even call it training, just swimming around in people’s private backyard pools,' Ledecky said to cbrennansports of usatodaysports Tuesday afternoon.
In her illustrious swimming career, Katie Ledecky has won five Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship titles, the most of any woman in history. Recently, she has spent months of her life preparing for another go at Olympic glory in Tokyo this summer.
As her ability to prepare for the Olympics was severely altered by closures related to the coronavirus pandemic, Ledecky knew this could not continue. She couldn’t swim at all for “a number of days,” she said. With four months to go to the Olympics, this was no way to train. “I think USA Swimming deserves some credit for making a little bit of a push and really listening to their athletes and their coaches and hearing about the training situations we were in,” she said. “We didn’t want to risk our health and the health of those around us, and it was the same situation pretty much around the world, some even worse. Postponing the Olympics was the right call today by all means and I’m glad they made it.
“I think we were able to swim that day,” she said of her birthday. “It changed so much over time. While the Olympics were still on and they were telling us to do our best, we all felt like we had to scramble and do our best to keep training and see what pools were open and what we could squeeze in.
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