{"id":5273,"date":"2016-08-13T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T04:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/13\/the-moment-we-witnessed-just-how-fast-katie-ledecky-really-is\/"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T04:43:02","slug":"the-moment-we-witnessed-just-how-fast-katie-ledecky-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/13\/the-moment-we-witnessed-just-how-fast-katie-ledecky-really-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The moment we witnessed just how fast Katie Ledecky really is"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It wasn’t even close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Katie Ledecky set a world record during the 800-meter freestyle, clocking in at 8:12.86. It was her last swim in Rio and her other wins this week make her the first woman since 1968 to get gold in the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter races during one Olympic bout.<\/p>\n

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During the entire race, Ledecky was far ahead of her competitors, and she knew it. She beat the other competitors by roughly 11 seconds.<\/p>\n

“I could feel it was faster than any other swim,” Ledecky told a poolside NBC reporter after the race, adding that she was basking in the crowd’s love following her final swim in Rio.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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It wasn’t even close.\u00a0 Katie Ledecky set a world record during the 800-meter freestyle, clocking in at 8:12.86. It was her last swim in Rio and her other wins this week make her the first woman since 1968 to get … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,4012,1043,754,3980],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-katie-ledecky","tag-olympics","tag-pics","tag-rio-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}