Olympic Champion Katie Ledecky Reveals Hilarious “Reality” About Competing Against Lilly King

The unstoppable Katie Ledecky has proved her mettle once again in the Pro Series in Knoxville recently. After that, in a recent interview, Ledecky has given a glimpse of her staunch training regime eyeing the Paris Olympics. But that does not mean that she has taken out the fun quotient from her life. And it seems that she has some close-to-heart buddies when it comes to bringing in that fun.

Last week, Katie Ledecky was excited when she faced off against 2016 Olympic Champion Lilly King for the first time ever. The virtuoso even took to her Instagram to share the excitement tagging King. As Ledecky dives into the Olympic training, she once again rekindled her bond with King recently. But this time she highlighted a truth of the swimming realm with a funny twist while taking King onboard.

Katie Ledecky digs up old rivalry

The 400IM event is considered one of the hardest events in swimming. So expectedly, swimmers churn themselves out to get the race done. Those hard efforts are often reflected in their facial expressions which frequently give rise to some immortal snapshots captured by ace photographers. While social media snaps mostly focus on the jubilant snaps, those hard-fought moments during the race actually look quite different. Ledecky posted two such snaps of her in her latest post while swimming and captioned it, “400 IM* Instagram vs. ➡️ Reality”. This could have ended here. But the PostScript gave it a deep meaning in a funny coating.

Tagging Lilly King, Katie Ledecky further wrote, “The breaststroke portion of the 400 IM when getting run down by @_king_lil 😂” It instantly dug up the recent friendly tussle between Ledecky and King. Last year King made a bold statement about her caliber to compete in 400 IM. She added that she could throw down a good run at the 400 IM. After hearing King’s words, Katie Ledecky immediately reacted and told her to “put her money where her mouth was“. Therefore, both swimmers looked upon the opportunity to compete against each other.

Last weekend, Lilly King and Katie Ledecky competed against each other at the Knoxville Pro Swimming event. Interestingly, the breaststroke maestro Lilly King was ahead of Katie in the breaststroke leg and gave her staunch competition till the end. But Ledecky eventually surpassed her with her trademark freestyle stronghold. Undoubtedly, Ledecky brought that ‘weak run’ of her in her latest post with a hilarious twist. However, with all her cons Katie Ledecky seems to have no plans to slow down in the coming years.

What are Katie’s Olympic plans ahead?

In a recent interview with reporters during a media session after the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Katie said, “I can say pretty confidently that I’m not going to be done in 2024,…I just don’t see myself hanging it up after next year. I just love the sport too much right now. I can can’t wrap my head around being done next year.” In Fact, even though Katie is not yet qualified for the Paris Olympics 2024, she is already thinking about the next Olympics. 

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She categorically told that 2028 Los Angeles is “in the picture” for her. For this year, Katie Ledecky will have a chance to create history once again. By winning just two more medals she can surpass Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin for most Olympic medals. The world waits with bated breath!

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