The year after the Olympics isn’t always known for it, but there should be fireworks in the women’s events at the world swimming championships in Budapest next week.
Katie Ledecky could match Missy Franklin‘s record of six gold medals at a single worlds. Judging by Ledecky’s times at the U.S. Championships last month, the rising Stanford sophomore in her usual dominant form. Plus, there’s this:
“She was racing the guys in training camp, and they were doing all they could not to lose,” Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Lilly King said, according to an Agence France-Presse report Thursday.