Every four years, the Summer Olympics are a canon event for millions of people across the globe. The best-of-the-best athletes are transported to some major city (this year, Paris) where they compete to be crowned the best athletes in the world.
And, yes, there are a million different aspects of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics that we could discuss. This year, the internet has meme’d every single competitor from “Mr. Pommel Horse” Stephen Nedoroscik, the women’s artistic gymnastic team headed by Simone Biles, and, of course, French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati.
All eyes are on the Olympians as we head into the final week of competitions before the closing ceremonies on August 11…and while we celebrate them for their elite athletic abilities, I want to chat about something else they excel in: fashion.
Yes, some of your favorite Olympians are gold medalists not only in their sport, but also in dressing well.
Because the Olympics are splashed across the world stage for several weeks every other year, we all get to know the athletes pretty well. Some are returning fan-favorites (Katie Ledecky, Biles, Noah Lyles), and there are newfound competitors who’ve stolen our hearts.
And while the world appreciates the gymnastics leotards or the Opening Ceremonies costumes, I like to look at the athletes who show their style in other ways. Take Noah Lyles and his painted nails, for example, which have of course been a topic of controversy.
If you’re watching these athletes compete, chances are you’re catching bits of their personality regardless. And I’m sure you’re looking them up on social media hungry to learn everything you can about them.
I’m no different than you. I’m constantly searching social media while watching these Olympians medal. I need to know their life story…Which is how I’ve found some of the most stylish Olympians competing this year. Here are my findings:
Suni Lee
Suni Lee has quite the story: overcoming two rare kidney disease diagnoses and battling her way back up to Olympic caliber. Not only is she an Olympic medalist this year, but she’s also a bit of a fashion icon herself.
Suni was the face of the Team USA Olympic SKIMS campaign, and often isn’t shown without iconic lash extensions and flawless makeup. You catch a flavor of Suni’s inimitable style in everything she wears and not just from hair and makeup alone.
Simone Biles
Simone’s got swag, to put it bluntly. With a bejeweled rhinestone travel bag announcing “Simone Biles Owens” next to the Olympic rings, gems nestled into her canine teeth, and a diamond goat chain, she lets her personality shine despite having to wear a conforming uniform.
Biles Owens is insanely talented, with multiple gymnastic moves attributed to her, but I love how she shows her flashy style and wears it with confidence. Such a Biles move.
Noah Lyles
World champion sprint runner, Noah Lyles, is no stranger to winning. Following his Olympic Gold in the 100-metre dash – which he won by 5-thousandths of a second! – his Olympic-themed nails were a hot topic of conversation.
He won the Olympics this year wearing an ornate choker and multiple bracelets. But off the track, his style is getting pinned straight to our Pinterest boards.
Sha’Carri Richardson
Sha’Carri is famous for being one of the fastest women in the world, but something that also sets her apart is her style. Often running with her hair down, lash extensions, and always-intact acrylic nails, Sha’Carri’s not too shy to show a little bling.
Richardson constantly shows she’s got flair and attitude through her fiery hair and even more fiery antics.
Coco Gauff
The face of New Balance and brands like Ray Ban, Coco Gauff radiates effortless style. Tennis-core is a big trend right now, but for Coco, it’s just her uniform. She has her own New Balance line, of course, and was decked out in the brand for her Olympic debut.
What Gauff does best is simplicity. She chooses her accessories deliberately: like wearing two matching wrist sweatbands when competing.
Katie Ledecky continued to make history at the Paris Olympics by becoming the second swimmer in history to win an event at four straight Summer Games.
Ledecky, who held off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle Saturday night, tied a record previously held solely by Michael Phelps, who won gold in the 200-individual medley at Athens, Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro.
Katie Ledecky of Team United States and Ariarne Titmus of Team Australia compete in the Women’s 800m Freestyle Final at the Olympic Games in Paris.
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Ledecky claimed her first gold with a surprise victory in the 800 free as a 15-year-old at the 2012 London Games. She has dominated the grueling race ever since.
It was Ledecky’s second gold medal in Paris and ninth of her remarkable career, which marked another milestone.
She became only the sixth Olympian to reach that figure, joining swimmer Mark Spitz, track star Carl Lewis, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina and Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi in a tie for second place.
The only athlete to win more golds is Phelps with 23.
Ledecky went faster than her winning time in Tokyo, touching in 8 minutes, 11.04 seconds. Titmus, the Australian star known as the “Terminator,” was right on her shoulder nearly the entire race, but Ledecky pulled away in the final 100.
Titmus, who beat Ledecky in the 400 freestyle, settled for silver at 8:12.29. The bronze went to another American, Paige Madden at 8:13.00.
U.S. sets world record in mixed relay
The United States set a new world record in the 4×100 mixed relay on Saturday, making up for a disappointing showing in Paris so far.
Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske held off China for a winning time of 3:37.43, breaking the mark of 3:37.58 set by Britain when it won gold in the wild and woolly event’s Olympic debut three years ago.
With each team picking two men and two women, the U.S. and China both went with their male swimmers in the first two legs.
USA’s Ryan Murphy, Nick Fink, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske with their gold medals after winning the Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay at the Paris La Defense Arena.
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Murphy put the U.S. in front on the backstroke, China’s Qin Haiyang slipped past Nic Fink on the breaststroke, but Walsh put the Americans back in front on the butterfly before Huske held off Yang Junxuan to secure the gold.
The Chinese team, which also included Xu Jiayu and Zhang Yufei, took silver in 3:37.55. The bronze went to Australia in 3:38.76.
When the British won gold in 2021, the Americans finished fifth. Britain was seventh this time.
Kate Douglass takes silver in 200 individual medley
Kate Douglas added another medal to her coffers on Saturday when she won silver in the 200-meter individual medley.
The two-time Olympian started strong but was chased down by 17-year-old Summer McIntosh from Canada, who finished the race with an Olympic record of 2:06.56.
The Americans lost the bronze when Alex Walsh, the silver medalist in this event at Tokyo who recorded a time of 2:07.06, was disqualified because she did not finish the backstroke segment on her back.
United States’ Kate Douglass, Canada’s Summer Mcintosh and Australia’s Kaylee Mckeown pose with their medals during the awards ceremony for the women’s 200-meter individual medley at the Summer Olympics.
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It was a bitter blow for Walsh, whose younger sister, Gretchen, has won a gold medal and two silvers in Paris.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia touched fourth and was bumped up to the bronze at 2:08.08.
American swimmer Katie Ledecky uses *** truly dominating performance to win her first gold here at the Paris Olympics and to make history set an Olympic record with *** time of 1532 in the 1500 m race. She has now lost in 14 years. The decisive win also allows her to match the record for most Olympic medals ever won by *** woman with 12. She is also now tied with swimmer Jenny Thompson’s record for the most Olympic gold medals by an American woman with eight and we’re not done yet. Ledecky is the first female swimmer to win gold at four different Olympic Games named among that group. I mean, so many swimmers that I looked up to for so many years that have gotten me to this moment. So at the moment, I am trying to take it all in. So um definitely enjoying tonight and trying to soak in on every little bit of it. Um but once the once the week is over, I’ll really be to process it all and Ledecky still has *** chance at more goals in more history as she said to race in the 800 m at the Paris Olympics. I’m Fletcher Mackel.
With a silver in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay Thursday night, Ledecky collected the 13th medal of her stellar career to become the most decorated female in swimming history.She would’ve preferred it to be gold, but that went to an Australian squad led by gold medalists Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus.Still, in her next-to-last event of these games, Ledecky broke the mark she shared with fellow Americans Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and Jenny Thompson. The 27-year-old now has eight golds, four silvers and one bronze over four Olympics, with every intention of swimming on to Los Angeles in 2028.Ledecky has one more event, the 800 freestyle. She’s the favorite for her fourth straight gold at that distance.
With a silver in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay Thursday night, Ledecky collected the 13th medal of her stellar career to become the most decorated female in swimming history.
She would’ve preferred it to be gold, but that went to an Australian squad led by gold medalists Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus.
Still, in her next-to-last event of these games, Ledecky broke the mark she shared with fellow Americans Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and Jenny Thompson. The 27-year-old now has eight golds, four silvers and one bronze over four Olympics, with every intention of swimming on to Los Angeles in 2028.
Ledecky has one more event, the 800 freestyle. She’s the favorite for her fourth straight gold at that distance.
Both the men’s and women’s Olympic triathlon events proceeded with swimming in the Seine River on Wednesday after the water’s pollution levels caused a delay. CBS Saturday Morning co-host and CBS News and sports correspondent Dana Jacobson has more from Paris.
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Katie Ledecky is a star swimmer, but she wouldn’t be where she is now without her parents. The Maryland native knows she can make them proud with her wits and swimming abilities.
Ledecky joined the Olympic National Team at 15 during the 2012 London Summer Olympics and won her first gold medal in the 800 m race. Fast forward to now and she’s won 10 Olympics medals—seven of which are gold. She’s currently the most decorated woman swimmer of all time and one of the faces of Team USA. She’s splashing into her fourth Olympics after Tokyo 2020 at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and we know she’s going do amazing.
Well, it also seems that Katie Ledecky’s parents also had a hand and a kick in the sport. Read more about her biggest supporters below.
Mary Gen Ledecky
Mary Gen Ledecky (née Hagan) is Katie Ledecky’s mother. Like her daughter, she was a collegiate swimmer at the University of New Mexico and qualified for nationals three times. She was a health administrator. Mary Gen’s father had the Williston town pool named after him, which Katie swam the first lap.
Before she competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, Mary Gen gushed that they wouldn’t contain their excitement. “She’s calm. And that’s great. I think it’s a helpful attribute,” Mary Gen Ledecky told NBC4. “We’re not serene. We’re yelling and screaming, cheering.”
She also noted that she’s pretty comfortable in competing where “there’s nothing a mom or dad needs to do. “We just want her to be happy,” she continued. “She’s been so focused and so goal-oriented; we hope that she’ll find something that she can be very happy doing and find a passion” in addition to the pool.
David Ledecky
David Ledecky is Katie Ledecky’s father. He’s an attorney who graduated from Harvard and Yale. As well as supporting her sports endeavors, David is very supportive of her education when she attended Stanford and majored in . “The way our parents believe in education, it was a no-brainer Katie wasn’t going to turn professional,” he told ESPN.
He also thinks that Katie is sure of herself when it comes to swimming, “She doesn’t think in those terms of being the biggest thing in the sport. I don’t get the sense of her feeling any pressure at all.” He continued, “I guess even we haven’t wrapped our heads around who she is now.”
Katie Ledecky, left, and Paige Madden of the United States looks on during the medal ceremony for the Women’s 800m freestyle final on Day Eight of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium on June 22, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Katie Ledecky is going for gold, again. The seven-time gold medalist (and 21 world championship gold medals, the most of any female swimmer) is returning to Olympic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
Find out how to watch Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel and all the talented swimmers compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics, even if you don’t have cable.
When are the swimming events at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Swimming events at the 2024 Summer Olympics will begin on July 27, 2024 and conclude on August 4, 2024. A total of 852 swimmers from around the world will compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
How to watch the swimming events at the 2024 Paris Olympics
NBC and Telemundo will broadcast at least nine hours of coverage from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET each day. Some events will air on the USA Network, Golf Channel, CNBC and E!.
Peacockwill livestream every event of the Paris 2024 Olympics, including the opening and closing ceremonies and every Olympic basketball game.
How to watch the swimming events at the 2024 Paris Olympics without cable
While many cable packages include NBC and the other channels broadcasting the 2024 Summer Olympics, it’s easy to watch the 2024 Summer Olympics if those channels aren’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you don’t have cable at all. Your best options for watching are below. (Streaming options will require an internet provider.)
In addition to major sporting events like the 2024 Paris Olympics, Peacock offers its subscribers live-streaming access to NFL games that air on NBC and sports airing on USA Network. The streaming service has plenty more live sports to offer, including Big Ten basketball, Premier League soccer and WWE wrestling (including formerly PPV-only events such as WrestleMania). There are 80,000 hours worth of recorded content to watch as well, including hit movies and TV series such as “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.”
A Peacock subscription costs $8 per month. An annual plan is available for $80 per year (best value). You can cancel anytime.
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Peacock’s Olympic coverage will include “multi-view” options in which fans can curate their viewing journey, choosing the Olympic events they are most interested in watching.
Peacock will air exclusive coverage of PGA Tour events, Olympic trials and Paris Olympics 2024 events.
Peacock features plenty of current and classic NBC and Bravo TV shows, plus original programming such as the award-winning reality show “The Traitors.”
For streaming the Paris Olympics — and for streaming all the must-watch college football and NFL games to follow this fall — we like Sling TV. The cable TV replacement option offers packages that include your local NBC station starting at $45 per month, or $70 for two months (special prepay offer). You also get access to E! and USA Network (including 400 hours of Olympics programming on USA in 4K resolution). We like that there’s a $11 per month sports add-on plan called Sports Extra and the option to add on Paramount+ if you want to catch even more sporting events this fall.
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All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
You can add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Network, NFL RedZone, MLB Network, Tennis Channel and more sports-oriented channels (19 in total) via Sling TV’s Sports Extras add-on.
You can also catch the 2024 Summer Olympics airing on network TV on Fubo. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to network-aired sports like the Tour de France, and almost every NFL game next season. Packages include the live feed of sports and programming airing on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just the Summer Olympics- all without a cable subscription.
To watch the 2024 Summer Olympic Games without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to Olympic events, you’ll have access to NFL football, Fubo offers NCAA college sports, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. Fubo’s Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Sports fans will want to consider adding on the $7.99 per month Fubo Extra package, which includes MLB Network, NBA TV, NHL Network, Tennis Channel, SEC Network and more channels. Or upgrade to the Fubo Elite tier and get all the Fubo Extra channels, plus the ability to stream in 4K, for an extra $10 per month.
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The Pro tier includes over 180 channels, including NFL Network and Golf Channel.
Fubo includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro sports, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
You can watch the 2024 Summer Olympics and more top-tier sports coverage, including NFL Network, with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including Golf Channel. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and every NFL game on every network next season with Hulu + Live TV, plus exclusive live regular season NFL games, popular studio shows (including NFL Total Access and the Emmy-nominated show Good Morning Football) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per month.
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2024 Summer Olympic Games schedule: Swimming
(L-R) Gold Medalists, Claire Curzan, Kate Douglass, Hunter Armstrong and Nic Fink of Team United States pose with their medals after the Medal Ceremony for the Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Final on day thirteen of the Doha 2024 World Aquatics Championships.
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Below is a schedule of the Olympic swimming medal races.
Event
Schedule
Men’s 400m Freestyle Final
2:42pm ET on July 27
Women’s 400m Freestyle Final
2:52pm ET on July 27
Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
3:34pm ET on July 27
Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
3:44pm ET on July 27
Men’s 400m Individual Medley Final
2:30pm ET on July 28
Women’s 100m Butterfly Final
2:40pm ET on July 28
Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final
3:44pm ET on July 28
Women’s 400m Individual Medley Final
2:30pm ET on July 29
Men’s 200m Freestyle Final
2:40pm ET on July 29
Men’s 100m Backstroke Final
3:19pm ET on July 29
Women’s 100m Breaststroke Final
3:25pm ET on July 29
Women’s 200m Freestyle Final
3:41pm ET on July 29
Women’s 100m Backstroke Final
2:56pm ET on July 30
Men’s 800m Freestyle Final
3:02pm ET on July 30
Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final
4:01pm ET on July 30
Women’s 100m Freestyle Final
2:30pm ET on July 31
Men’s 200m Butterfly Final
2:36pm ET on July 31
Women’s 1500m Freestyle Final
3:07pm ET on July 31
Men’s 200m Breaststroke Final
4:14pm ET on July 31
Men’s 100m Freestyle Final
4:22pm ET on July 31
Women’s 200pm Butterfly Final
2:30pm ET on Aug 1
Men’s 200m Backstroke Final
2:37pm ET on Aug 1
Women’s 200m Breaststroke Final
3:04pm ET on Aug 1
Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final
3:49pm ET on Aug 1
Men’s 50m Freestyle Final
2:30pm ET on Aug 2
Women’s 200m Backstroke Final
2:36pm ET on Aug 2
Men’s 200m Individual Medley Final
2:43pm ET on Aug 2
Men’s 100m Butterfly Final
2:30pm ET on Aug 3
Women’s 200m Individual Medley Final
3:01pm ET on Aug 3
Women’s 800m Freestyle Final
3:08pm ET on Aug 3
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Final
3:34pm ET on Aug 3
Women’s 50m Freestyle Final
12:30pm ET on Aug 4
Men’s 1500m Freestyle Final
12:36pm ET on Aug 4
Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Final
1:06pm ET on Aug 4
Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Final
1:26pm ET on Aug 4
What are Katie Ledecky’s events at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
The Stanford graduate plans to swim in the 400 meter, 800 and 1500 freestyle individual events at the Paris Olympics, and join the 4×200 relay team. Ledecky holds the world records in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle (15:20.48) and the women’s 800 freestyle (8:04.79).
She has broken 16 world records and 37 American records.
Who are the athletes on the Team USA swimming team?
A total of 46 American pool swimmers qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Women
ATHLETE
EVENT(S)
Phoebe Bacon
200m backstroke
Katharine Berkoff
100m backstroke
Erika Connolly
4x100m freestyle relay
Kate Douglass
200m breaststroke 200m IM 4x100m freestyle relay
Erin Gemmell
200m freestyle 4x200m freestyle relay
Katie Grimes
1500m freestyle 400m IM
Torri Huske
100m freestyle 100m butterfly 4x100m freestyle relay
Washington — President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Friday to 19 recipients, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky.
Mr. Biden spoke briefly about each honoree, praising their “relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope.”
Nodding to the criticism of his own age as he runs for a second term at age 81, Mr. Biden praised the 27-year-old Ledecky, arguably the greatest female swimmer of all time, as she prepares for the Paris Olympics this summer.
“Don’t let age get in your way,” Mr. Biden said. “Katie, age is just a number, kid.”
Mr. Biden also used the occasion to make thinly-veiled references to the threat he says former President Donald Trump is to democracy. The two are the 2024 presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, respectively.
The president recalled Gore conceding the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush after weeks of legal battles over the vote recount in Florida. Trump refused to concede after Mr. Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election and has defended the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in protest of the outcome of the election.
“After winning the popular vote, he accepted the outcome of a disputed presidential election for the sake of unity and trust in our institutions,” Mr. Biden said of Gore. “That to me was amazing what you did, Al — I won’t go into that.”
He called Pelosi the “greatest speaker of the House of Representatives,” saying she “used her superpowers to pass some of the most significant laws in our nation’s history.”
“On January 6, Nancy stood in the breach and defended democracy with her husband, Paul,” the president said. “They stood up to extremism with absolute courage, physical courage.”
Pelosi’s husband was attacked by a man with a hammer who broke into their San Francisco home while the then-speaker was out of town.
The full list of 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients:
Michael Bloomberg, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and three-term mayor of New York City.
Father Gregory J. Boyle, a Jesuit Catholic priest and founder and director of Homeboy Industries, a gang rehabilitation and re-entry program.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who has served three decades in the House. He previously served as House Majority Whip and Assistant Democratic Leader.
Elizabeth Dole, who served as a North Carolina senator from 2003 to 2009. She was also Transportation Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, Labor Secretary for President George H.W. Bush and the president of the American Red Cross.
Phil Donahue, a journalist who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented talk show.
Medgar Wiley Evers is being honored posthumously. He led the fight against segregation in Mississippi after fighting for his country in World War II. He was murdered at age 37 in 1963.
Al Gore. The former vice president won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election, but conceded the presidency to George W. Bush after a weeks-long recount battle in Florida. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his climate change work.
Clarence B. Jones, a renowned civil rights activist and lawyer who helped draft Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
John Kerry, who was Secretary of State for President Barack Obama and the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate under Mr. Biden. He earned a Silver Star and Bronze Star for his actions during combat in the Vietnam War.
Frank R. Lautenberg is being honored posthumously. The five-term senator from New Jersey is remembered for his work on environmental protection and consumer safety.
Katie Ledecky has won seven Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, making her the most decorated female swimmer in history.
Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space and the second female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. She has flown in space four times.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as speaker of the House. She made history again in 2019 when she was reelected to the position.
Jane Rigby, the chief scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.
Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers and the first Latina to become president of a national union in the United States.
Judy Shepard, co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, an organization created in honor of her gay son who was brutally murdered.
James Francis Thorpe is being honored posthumously. He was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal.
Michelle Yeoh. The actress last year won the Academy Award for best actress for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” becoming the first Asian to win the category.
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at cbsnews.com and is based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
It seems the pot at the end of the rainbow delivered these gifts to happy parents.
St. Patrick’s Day is know for the Irish, beer, cabbage, drinking, green and having fun. For some, it is also about delivering there on treasure. You don’t have to guess who was born on St. Patrick’s Day since we have a list here for you.
Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of St. Patrick is a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick the foremost patron saint of Ireland. n 1903, Saint Patrick’s Day became an official public holiday in Ireland. One of the longest-running and largest Saint Patrick’s Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal, whose city flag includes a shamrock. Celebrations in the US include prominent displays of green, religious observances, numerous parades, and copious consumption of alcohol.
But this is about St. Patrick’s Day. So this isn’t about you…of course, unless you were born on St. Patrick’s Day, in which case, welcome! This post is about you. Here are the inordinate number of celebrities born on St. Patrick’s Day.
John Boyega
The is a British actor and producer has the been lucky with his success!
Rob Lowe
Lowe was has been the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for fans since he hit the screens 1979 which the short-lived sitcom A New Kind of Family.
Hozier
This Irish musician, singer and songwriter truly has the talent of Irish. His music primarily draws from folk, soul and blues, often using religious and literary themes and a political or social justice stance.
The American competitive swimmer made her own pot of gold. She has won seven Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer.
Yanic Truesdale
The Canadian-American actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in series Gilmore Girls. Daily Variety named him one of “10 Actors to Watch.
May those who love us, love us And those who don’t love us, May God turn their hearts And if he can’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles So we will know them by their limping!
U.S. swimming champion Katie Ledecky tied a record with legend Michael Phelps for the most individual world swimming titles, USA Swimming announced Tuesday.
Ledecky, 26, achieved the feat while competing in Fukuoka, Japan, at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, where she won the 1,500-meter freestyle race —her 15th world title, and her fifth in the specific race.
The Olympic champion from Maryland called the shared record with Phelps an “honor.”
“I’ve known Michael for many years now, looked up to him as a little kid,” Ledecky said in a press conference after her win. “Just never really imagined I would be in this position. It’s always an honor to win a medal for Team USA, especially gold.”
The win also marked another record for the swimmer —the first woman to earn 20 World Championships gold medals, according to USA Swimming.
Additionally, she broke the record for the first swimmer to win five world titles in two different events: 800-meter freestyle and 1,500-meter freestyle.
“It hurt a lot, but I am really happy with the outcome,” Ledecky said poolside after her monumental victory. “The secret is just a lot of hard work and having really great people around me, including my coaches over the last 10-plus years.”
Ledecky finished the race in 15:26.27, the third-fastest time ever for the 1,500 meter and a whopping 17 seconds ahead of the second-place competitor, Simona Quadrella of Italy.
The best-ever and second best-ever times in the 1,500-meter race are also held by Ledecky, which she set in 2018 and 2015, according to the Olympics. In fact, the swimmer owns 18 of the 20th fastest times for the 1,500-meter freestyle of all time.
Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer of all time with six individual Olympic gold medals and now 15 individual world titles, the Olympics organization reports.
Ledecky began her Olympic career at age 15, picking up a gold medal for the 800-meter race in the London 2012 games.
