NBC Paris 2024 Summer Olympics Promo - Mariska Hargitay on Katie Ledecky

before becoming the greatest female swimmer in history before all the gold medals and World Championships Katie Lei was a little girl living in Bethesda Maryland swimming with her family Katie's mom swam competitively in college and she encouraged Katie's older brother Michael to try swimming at age six Katie dipped into the pool too and what began as family bonding quickly ignited into a deeper passion Katie has great memories of her summer league swim team and each race was always about just one thing try to get your hand to the wall first so this summer in Paris if Katie keeps touching the wall first KY surging ahead looks like she's going to win another Olympic gold as she does she could end up with more Olympic medals than any other American woman ever