21 Female Athletes We Hope to Watch at the Tokyo Olympics
21 Incredible Female Athletes We Want to Watch at Tokyo 2021
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Sport: Swimming
Country: USA
Ledecky is known for smashing records by jaw-dropping intervals and leaving her competitors far in her wake, and we're expecting more of the same at next year's Olympics. An illness at the 2019 World Championships left Ledecky with fewer medals than usual, but she pushed through and still came out of the competition with one world title and two silvers. In competitions since, she's looked as dominant as ever, and the fact that she has a whole extra year to train and is making good use of it should strike some fear into the hearts of her competitors.