Gold Medal Minute by @swimoutletdotcom
7-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky is in her third year at Florida under Coach Anthony Nesty, and she thinks she has grown in his training group.  I raced against Nesty back in the day (late 1980s, early 1990s) and he was a sprinter. I never thought he'd be a distance swim coach, but Ledecky says her conversations with Florida alums about the kinds of  workouts he did paints a different story. Ledecky thinks Nesty was a distance swimmer at heart.

In this interview Ledecky unpacks her training, why Friday workout are particularly brutal, and she shares a little about how Bobby Finke takes it when she beats in him in practice. Ledecky said it doesn't happen often, but when it does....  What the video to hear it from her.

KATIE LEDECKY U.S. TRIALS PREDICTIONS

1 - This is not her final US Olympic Trials. I predict Ledecky will compete at the 2028 U.S. Olympic Trials.

2 - At the 2024 Olympic Trials, she swims to make the U.S. Team. I don’t see any PBs.  I do see a potential PB in the 1500 in Paris.  In Paris she touches the wall at 15:19 for the gold.

AT US TRIALS:

400 Free: 3:58.8 - for the win
800 Free: 8:09.9 - for the win
1500 Free: 15:27 - for the win
200 Free? I don’t know if she’s swim it at Trials. If she does, she’s 1:54.3.

BUT WHO CARES WHAT I THINK? IT’S ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK. DROP YOUR COMMENTS BELOW.

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