The weather could factor into the return of sports and the fans

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13 May 2020

The weather could factor into the return of sports and the fans

No American female swimmer has won more individual Olympic gold medals than Katie Ledecky. Her four overall – tied with 1988 star Janet Evans – include one in 2012 and three in a dominating 2016 showing when her winning smile was ever-present during NBC’s coverage of women’s swimming. 

These days, she is in a significantly less conspicuous setting: a California backyard pool doing laps in one of the few places still available because of the coronavirus shutdown. Living near the Stanford campus, Ledecky and Olympic gold-medal teammate Simone Manuel train with 2020 U.S. Olympic Women’s Swimming coach Greg Meehan to stay in shape for Olympic competition that is currently postponed until July 23-August 8 2021. 

“We have this little workout every day in a backyard pool and you’ve got two of the greatest athletes in the world next to each other,” Meehan told AccuWeather. “They don’t have access to [a 50-meter Olympic-sized pool] but it’s better than nothing.” .....

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