{"id":387509,"date":"2019-08-03T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=387509"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:14:21","slug":"motivated-katie-ledecky-finally-feeling-like-herself-after-worlds-illness-video-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/motivated-katie-ledecky-finally-feeling-like-herself-after-worlds-illness-video-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivated Katie Ledecky Finally Feeling Like Herself After Worlds Illness (VIDEO INTERVIEW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After hours of rest and a return flight to California, Katie Ledecky<\/strong> is finally starting to feel like herself again after dealing with a stomach virus at the World Championships in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

And she is motivated.<\/p>\n

It is tough not to be motivated when she was forced to pull out of two events<\/a> at worlds and didn\u2019t perform her best on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n

But Ledecky has put that part of is past her now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are still going to be tough races for me next year when I am healthy, and I will take a lot of motivation away from the worlds I had,\u201d Ledecky said. \u201cIt happens to ever athlete. Fortunately, it never happened at a big meet like this until now. I guess I have been lucky over the years that nothing like this has happened.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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