by Rebecca BRYAN Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky is powering into the swimming World Championships in Budapest, leading a US team out to build on their latest Olympic show of strength in Rio. To be sure some longtime standard-bearers are missing from the US squad — most notably the now-retired superstar Michael Phelps. But in Ledecky the Americans have a sure-fire contender for multiple gold. The […]





