“So I would have been happier with a faster time,” Ledecky told Nexstar’s Matt Barnes after coming out of the water. “But again, the medal is a medal.”
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atie Ledecky fired the first salvo in her duel with Ariarne Titmus, posting the fastest time the preliminaries of the women’s 400-meter freestyle Saturday as the swimming competition began at the Paris Olympics.
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