U.S. swimmer bounces back in Paris as Katie Ledecky wins the 800m, her ninth Olympic gold medal.

The legendary American swimmer Katie Ledecky has achieved her feat once more. She defeated the highly skilled Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus, who claimed silver, to win the gold medal in the demanding 800-meter freestyle final.

After the race, Ledecky remarked, “We were all hurting after that one.” “I knew it was going to be tough and it played out that way.”

Ledecky had already won gold at these Games once, in the women’s 1,500-meter finals, which she dominated.

Swimmer Titmus also took home two gold medals from the Paris Olympics and said racing Ledecky was an honor.

“I tried my hardest,” Titmus remarked.

Since London in 2012, Ledecky has dominated this event, victorious in the 800-meter Olympic final four times in a row.

Katie Ledecky has the legacy of winning the most gold medal

Ledecky has dominated this competition since London in 2012, winning the 800-meter Olympic final four times in a row.

“I’m happy that she was the one to beat me to keep her streak alive because that’s just remarkable,” remarked Titmus.

Ledecky has now taken home 14 medals from the Olympics, nine of them gold. She holds the record for most medals an American woman athlete earns at the Olympics.

Shortly after Ledecky’s victory, an American men’s and women’s relay team won the gold in the 4 by 100 medley finals, narrowly defeating a formidable Chinese team and setting a new world record.

In the women’s 200-meter individual medley, American swimmer Kate Douglass won silver at the Olympics in Paris. Breast, butterfly, back, and freestyle are all combined in medley races.

Douglass was defeated in the last meters by Canadian dynamo Summer McIntosh, who won four medals at the Paris Games, three of them gold. McIntosh also set a new Olympic record in the race.

After days of near-misses where competitors from other nations have fought to the last minute before the United States, tonight’s gold haul represented a bounce back. There are already six swimming medals for Team USA. The US typically claims at least ten medals at the Summer Olympics.