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What Exactly Is Modern Pentathlon?

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    • Five golds. Caeleb Dressel finished his Olympics with five gold medals, in the 100-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 50-meter freestyle, and two team relays.
    • Most decorated Olympian. Emma McKeon, a swimmer from Australia, has won seven medals, tying her for the record by any female Olympian, set in 1952 at the Helsinki Games by the gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union.