Ariarne Titmus upset Katie Ledecky to claim the Olympic 400m freestyle gold medal Monday in the second-fastest time ever swum, with the American great having to settle for second. The Australian inched clear over the final 50m to touch in 3min 56.69sec. Only world record holder Ledecky has ever gone quicker. Ledecky hit the wall for silver in 3:57.36, with China’s Li Bingjie a distant third in 4:01.08. “At the 200, I was a little […]
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Swimming: Ledecky leads US at Budapest worlds
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 […]





