Katie Ledecky
American Katie Ledecky currently holds records in several races, the 1500-meter, 800-meter, and 400-meter freestyle. Throughout her career, she’s broken 14 world records, many of them her own, and Ledecky is still young enough to cut more before she’s done. Just 15, when she debuted in London 2012, she won a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle race and broke Janet Evan’s longstanding America record in the event. The next Olympics, the 2016 Rio Games, Ledecky won four more gold medals. Simone Biles and Serena Williams came before her to vote for Associated Press’s Female Athlete of the Decade. She has won 5 Olympic golds, 15 World Championship golds, and holds the world record in the 400,800 and 1500. At present, she was one of the athletes to be featured in one of the first season’s episodes of new docuseries by Apple TV, “Greatness Code,” that is set to highlight the careers of seven different superstar athletes.
Katie Ledecky
Chen Ruolin
Chen Ruolon began diving at age four and joined the Chinese National Team at eleven years old. Ruolin is a five-time Chinese Olympic gold medalist diver who recently announced her retirement at the age of 23 due to a neck injury. She made her first Olympic appearance in Beijing 2008 when she was fifteen years old. A powerhouse in the diving world, with five gold medals under her name. Ruolin’s neck injuries in 2016 have forced her out of competing for good, it seems. Ruolin has competed in three Olympics, though, and is one of only three Chinese athletes with five gold medals. The 10-meter dive is a severe competition, but she dove ahead of the other contenders and won a gold pair at each of her Olympic appearances except for her final one.
Chen Ruolin