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Only Ledecky could utterly dominate an Olympic final yet still be confronted by the lack of a world record as somehow underwhelming, as if they\u2019re as easy as she\u2019s made them look the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the price of Ledecky\u2019s unprecedented dominance. Every racer behind the blocks at the Olympics is trying, first and foremost, to better their past selves. For Ledecky, named Swimming World American Female Swimmer of the Year, doing so means confronting the boundary of what is humanly possible. No one else shoulders that level of expectation.<\/p>\n<p>But then, there\u2019s only one Ledecky. And if there was any doubt about the 24-year-old\u2019s stature as the greatest distance swimmer of all-time, success at a third Olympics should silence them.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky isn\u2019t just collecting medals at a historic pace, up to seven gold and three silver for her career. She\u2019s doing it while logging an astounding amount of racing, 6,200 meters against the clock in total in Tokyo. (For comparison, <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> raced 1,450 for her seven medals, <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> 1,050 for his five and <strong>Ariane Titmus<\/strong> 3,200 for four).<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky rightly enters the record book as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-fittingly-katie-ledecky-powers-to-gold-in-inaugural-womens-1500-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first women\u2019s 1500 freestyle gold medalist<\/a> in Olympic history, a rightful honor given her profile. She\u2019s the first woman to three-peat in the 800 freestyle, one better than her distance predecessors <strong>Janet Evans<\/strong> and <strong>Brooke<\/strong> <strong>Bennett<\/strong>. (No man has ever three-peated in the 1500, their longest event). She added silver in the 400 free, and even fifth place in the 200 free was a finish she managed to find the bright side of.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just what Ledecky has accomplished but how she\u2019s done it. Her embrace of 15-year-old <strong>Katie Grimes<\/strong>, anointed as her American distance heir apparent and one half of the \u201cKatie squared\u201d duo, is quintessentially Ledecky, though such a welcoming attitude is all too rare. The same holds for her joy at seeing <strong>Erica Sullivan<\/strong> take silver in the 1500 free. And her magnanimity toward Titmus, even as they waged epic battles, is indicative of a growth mindset. While athletes of far less stature are busy creating enemies out of shadows, Ledecky\u2019s positivity turns rivals into benevolent motivation. Someone as obsessed with the process of improvement as Ledecky doesn\u2019t need extrinsic motivators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really friendly and it\u2019s amazing what she\u2019s accomplished this week as well,\u201d Ledecky said of Titmus. \u201cI\u2019m really thrilled to have that kind of competition as something that fuels me, and I know it fuels her as well. So I hope that I can keep up and stay competitive moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those connections bode well for continuing her career. Ledecky is committed to pursuing the Paris Olympics in 2024, shifting her training base to the University of Florida to challenge herself. She\u2019ll be just 31 when the 2028 Olympics arrive in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky\u2019s journey through Tokyo reinforced an important theme across the Games. She\u2019s not a machine. It may be easy to forget, in the reams of top times in history and how she coldly dispatches rivals in the water. 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