American swimmer, Katie Ledecky, 19, blew everyone to clinch her fourth gold medal at Rio and broke her own world record by two seconds to win the 800m Freestyle final.Katie took 8 minutes and 4.79 seconds to win- which was nearly 12 seconds faster than the silver medalist, Jazz Carlin. It would be fair to say, that this was the least dramatic final race at Rio.
I just wanted to push myself and see what I could do,” she said. “The Olympics are the pinnacle of our sport and I have to wait four more years to have that moment again, so I wanted the last one to be special.” She becomes the first woman to sweep the 200, 400 and 800m freestyle at the same Olympics since U.S. swimmer Debbie Meyer did so at Mexico City in 1968.
Here’s how the twitter reacted to this unreal dominance by the youngest member of the US Swimming Team
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B/R Featured: Katie Ledecky is "so fast that she's starting to beat my times." – Ryan Lochtehttps://t.co/zanJBfQ4Zr pic.twitter.com/2YWozNBc9s
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 13, 2016
The combined margin of victory in the 800 freestyle at the previous five Games was 11.76 seconds. #KatieLedecky equaled that in one race.
— Lola Haag (@ojailola) August 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/764277531063099392
Katie Ledecky just beat Germany's best swimmer in the 800 meter freestyle, Sarah Kohler, by 23 seconds
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 13, 2016
Swim like a girl. Run like a girl. Fight like a girl. @katieledecky #GirlPower https://t.co/cZnNhBfPfq
— Julie Ann Emery (@julieannemery) August 13, 2016
This is how much faster Katie Ledecky is than everyone else in the pool https://t.co/grJHyjETjW pic.twitter.com/QX86hrsgNt
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) August 13, 2016
Katie Ledecky waiting at the finish line be like. Congrats on winning #Gold and breaking world record! #Olympics pic.twitter.com/v4U5TOeFVs
— 9GAG (@9GAG) August 13, 2016
800m Medal Ceremony. @katieledecky gets her gold medal. Still waiting for other swimmers to finish. pic.twitter.com/vsWOGfeEWy
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) August 13, 2016
Legendary.
Katie Ledecky is the 2nd woman in history to win the 200m, 400m, and 800m Free at the same Olympics. pic.twitter.com/e43dK19pxy— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 13, 2016
American women with 4 golds in one Olympics (any sport):
Amy Van Dyken, '96
Missy Franklin, '12
Katie Ledecky, '16 pic.twitter.com/Ri9fWk9TBx— ESPN (@espn) August 13, 2016
There are no words to describe @katieledecky and her week long swim meet! Truly remarkable! I am in complete awe! #Rio2016
— Summer Sanders (@SummerSanders_) August 13, 2016
Katie Ledecky got out of the pool, changed and showered, got a flight home, cleaned her house, and came back before everyone else was done.
— Olivia (@ohliveeuh_) August 13, 2016
Katie Ledecky on her way to Taco Bell for a celebratory Crunchwrap while other folks are still swimming for 2nd
— Griffin's Cool 2018 Tweets (@griffinmcelroy) August 13, 2016
The yellow world record line was SO close to beating Katie Ledecky
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) August 13, 2016
Holy smokes. 8:04 is insane!!! @katieledecky, I've said it before: you're incredible!!! #BeastMode
— Natalie Coughlin (@NatalieCoughlin) August 13, 2016
Katie Ledecky, pictured with the 7 next best swimmers in the world. pic.twitter.com/3C08xu9DL7
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) August 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/764272639917625344
I don't know anything about swimming, but Katie Ledecky gets five-stars from me. 🇺🇸
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) August 13, 2016
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I don't think the yellow world record line is going to catch Katie Ledecky
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) August 13, 2016
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