{"id":607820,"date":"2021-08-01T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607820"},"modified":"2021-08-01T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:06:07","slug":"american-swimmer-katie-ledecky-dominates-at-tokyo-games-confirms-ambitions-for-the-paris-games-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-swimmer-katie-ledecky-dominates-at-tokyo-games-confirms-ambitions-for-the-paris-games-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"American swimmer Katie Ledecky dominates at Tokyo Games, confirms ambitions for the Paris Games in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-swimmer-katie-ledecky-dominates-at-tokyo-games-confirms-ambitions-for-the-paris-games-in-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2477645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2477645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 JULY 31: Katie Ledecky of Team USA poses with her two Gold and two Silver medals after a giving a press conference to the media during the Tokyo Olympic Games. (Laurence Griffiths\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:02 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, August 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Olympic swimming superstar Katie Ledecky said she hasn\u2019t ruled out the 2024 Paris Games after claiming her fourth medal in Tokyo. During a press conference on Saturday, the ace American swimmer said she\u2019s aiming towards competing in the Paris 2024 Games, which would be her fourth Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Los Angeles native dominated the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday, earning a gold in the event for the third time in a row. Ledecky also received gold in the 1,500-meter freestyle and earned silver in the 400-meter freestyle. Finally, Ledecky closed out the Games with a fourth medal in the 200-meter freestyle relay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Tokyo, and thank you all for the tremendous support this week and over the years! I could hear you all! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p>Bringing 2 Golds, 2 Silvers, and countless memories back to the USA\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XpXx7oDELQ\">pic.twitter.com\/XpXx7oDELQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Ledecky (@katieledecky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieledecky\/status\/1421483237092716548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ledecky began competing in the Olympics at just 15-years-old and has now earned seven gold medals throughout her career, leaving her one shy of the record for female swimmers. Ledecky also said she isn\u2019t ruling out competing on her home soil in L.A. in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to keep representing our country at this level and it would be an honor to go to a fourth Games, and it would be an honor to go to a fifth Games and compete on home soil,\u201d she said. \u201cI know how unique that is and how special that is to the people that get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Ledecky said the Olympics have been a huge part of her life and she may be at the Games in 2028 whether it\u2019s in the pool or in the stands.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/stanford-professor-of-medicine-on-mask-wearing-in-school-teachers-who-teach-to-unmasked-children-are-at-zero-additional-risk\/\">Stanford Professor Of Medicine On Mask Wearing In School: Teachers Who Teach To Unmasked Children Are At \u2018Zero Additional Risk\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 JULY 31: Katie Ledecky of Team USA poses with her two Gold and two Silver medals after a giving a press conference to the media during the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}