{"id":124977,"date":"2026-01-15T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:16:09","slug":"i-think-im-done-with-that-event-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124977\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I&#8217;m done with that event now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t2026 PRO SWIM SERIES \u2013 AUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>To start 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/bio\/katie-ledecky\/\" class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"Katie Ledecky Bio\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Ledecky<\/a> swam the 2nd fastest 1500m Freestyle of All-Time in Austin, 15:23.21. This was just a month removed from her 2025 finale, when she swam the fastest 1,650y Free ever, becoming the first woman to ever to dip under 15 minutes (14:59.62).<\/p>\n<p>In Austin yesterday, Ledecky reflected on her 1,650, saying that it had been a goal of hers for over 12 years. She also said she thinks she is now done with the 1,650 freestyle as an event in her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 PRO SWIM SERIES \u2013 AUSTIN To start 2026, Katie Ledecky swam the 2nd fastest 1500m Freestyle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,50894],"class_list":["post-124977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-katie-ledecky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}