Katie Ledecky got off to a rousing start Saturday at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.
Katie Ledecky swims during the Women's 400 freestyle preliminaries Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapoils. Competing in the home stadium of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, Ledecky blew away the field in the preliminaries of the 400-meter freestyle , touching the wall with a time of 3 minutes, 59.99 seconds.
The 400 was the first of four freestyle events that Ledecky is set to swim in Indianapolis, where the trials are being held in one end of massive Lucas Oil Stadium. The domed facility can hold up to 32,000 fans per session, though it wasn't close to that figure for the opening morning of the nine-day trials.
She already has six individual Olympic gold medals — more than any female swimmer in the history of the sport — and she'll be looking to add to that haul in Paris.
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