Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky on training in a backyard pool and her aspirations for Tokyo 2020
CNN
A backyard pool in California might be the last place you'd expect to find one of the world's greatest swimmers in training, but that was the reality for Katie Ledecky when the pandemic forced facilities to shut last year.
With her usual pool in Stanford closed for three months from March, five-time Olympic gold medalist Ledecky had to rely on the generosity of a nearby family as she builds toward the Tokyo Games. "I know a lot of people swam in rinky-dink backyard pools, but I was able to swim in a two-lane, 25-yard backyard pool," 23-year-old Ledecky tells CNN Sport.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
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