The swimmer with the top 18 fastest ever times in her category

The swimmer with the top 18 fastest ever times in her category

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day, day, day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Today's fact of the day is about American swimmer Kadie Lidecki.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have you heard of her?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yes, LIDICKI just wones she want to fly like a
country mile and.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
She's the she eight hundred meter freestyle free style. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
you know how you do with the swimming. It's like
there's that line and it goes like bo and you're
like which country came first? And it was like boo.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, it was like wait, wait. So she is at
her fourth Olympic Games. She has just won her ninth
gold medal and her fourteenth medal overall, meaning that she
is tied for the most successful female athlete going by medals. Yeah,
with Larissa Latynina. The Soviet gymnasts who won nine golds

(01:01):
in the fifties and sixties. It was a Ford roller ite.
Yeah yeah, but prants around seeing the comparison of gymnastics,
like the black and white coverage of gymnastics and like
the sixties versus what it is now.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Like spins on the floor and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And then some mom Bob was like and then it's
also like my parents buying a house in nineteen seventy
eight and me trying to buy a house and twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good stuff. The memes have been good. Yeah, tops, top tier,
top memes.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, here's the fact about Katie Ladecci. She actually holds
the top eighteen times and the eight.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hundred meter freestyle swimming for women. Oh why would you bother?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
There been no eighteen times in history belonged to one woman.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
So that's why no one's coming even close to her.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Wow. So she was for this this year. In February,
she was beaten for the first time in the eight
hundred since twenty ten. She was beaten by a Canadian
swimmer for some reason, didn't swim the eight hundred at
the sum of Macintosh. Didn't swim the eight hundred. Maybe
her arms fell off, or maybe it'd be a real shame.
So she's got that, she's got the eighteenth fastest time

(02:09):
in history. But of the top twenty five times, Leadecki
has twenty four of them. Wow, just one ten times,
nineteen of the top twenty times. As that Macintosh comes
into eighteenth and twenty four of the top twenty five times.
When it comes to the eight hundred meters spreaking. That's
where she lost that one range. She was like, I

(02:30):
want to even bother. I'm going to win that go
on and then she's like, oh my god, that Canadian.
Yeah okay, my next time. I guess why is she
so fast? She's just found her event. Yeah, she and
she just nails it. Eight hundred meters is the perfect
distance for her. It's late that time. Do you remember
when I had that arcade machine at work and I
just really concentrated on Donkey Kong really nailed in my

(02:53):
and I had all top ten schools on Donkey Kong.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Donkey Kong was at the Olympics. You have found sports.
So what's what's her record time for doing eight hundred meters.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Eight minutes, four seconds and for a second.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah wow, okay, so that's quite Yeah, that's a long swim.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
So she seems to have peaked in twenty sixteen. I
heard two top times are in twenty sixteen. This guy
that can did you hear that? Yeah, she's peaked.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
She's over the hill. She's last year. Last year she
got her third best time.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Twenty eighteen was her fourth best, twenty fifteen was her
fifth best.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
When I swim like a kilometer, It will take me
like seventeen and a bit minutes or sixteen maybe if
I'm going real fast, sixteen forty five.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
She's basically harsh. She's like she's double your machine. Yeah,
and to keep going. That's a long swim, not like
the little springy swim. So it's like dud. She's just
going and going and going.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, eight hundred meters worth of absolutely a sane, stroking forward.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
She done? Is she gonna?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
She thinks? I think, well four more years on a
see how old she was here? And she's definitely like
I'm slowing down. Yeah, she's sort of like women. She No,
she she's washed up. Did you say washed up?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I didn't say washed up. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
She got cancers at what you're worried about, I wouldn't
do when she's gonna have kids.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh, she is hoping to compete in twenty twenty eight
if her body allows her to.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Where are they in LA the next game?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Los Angeles A nineteen twenty eight, that's correct.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, nineteen twenty eight, No, twenty twenty eight, twenty nineteeny eight?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, are you only one hundred years old?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
We're only six months away from the vinding time travel.
The next November Games will be in Los Angeles and
nineteen twenty twenty twenty eight and I are the.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Next even just saying twenty twenty eight's a wild like
next year's twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yuck yuck. Yeah, that's not good man, what a machine name?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah. So, today's back to the day is American swimmer
Kate Katie Ladicki holds the top seventeen times in the
woman's eight hundred swim