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Q: Before Katie Ledecky, 19, was racing her way to Olympic glory, she was just a regular kid who looked up to another Olympic legend: Michael Phelps. 
  
 ESPN reporter Darren Rovell shared a photo on Twitter, courtesy of the Ledecky family, showing an adorable, bright-eyed Katie Ledecky getting an autograph from Michael Phelps. 
  
 10 years ago: A 9-year-old named Katie Ledecky gets an autograph from Michael Phelps (Credit: Ledecky Family) pic.twitter.com/oOOPns5mor — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 10, 2016 
  
 Little did she know that in six short years she would be a fellow Olympian, and gold medal winner, with Phelps at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. 
  
 RELATED: American swimmer Katie Ledecky shatters world record to bring home the Olympic gold 
  
  
  
  
  
 This isn’t the first photo that Rovell has shared of a younger Ledecky. In an earlier tweet, he shared a photo of two-time Olympic gold medal winner Michael Jordan holding Ledecky as a toddler, with the caption, “Michael Jordan got 2 gold medals. The little girl he’s holding now has 3. It’s Katie Ledecky.” 
  
 Michael Jordan got 2 gold medals. The little girl he's holding now has 3. It's Katie Ledecky. pic.twitter.com/W2PQGuckVL — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 10, 2016 
  
 RELATED: Michael Phelps just won his 21st Olympic gold medal 
  
 She has always enjoyed being in the company of champions, and now she is a champion, too. 
  
 Ledecky is set to swim again on Thursday, Aug. 11, in a challenge to win her fourth gold medal. ||||| Photo credit: Michael Sohn/AP Images 
  
 Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to bring him into a tie with the late, great Leonidas of Rhodes. 
  
 Olympic historian Bill Mallon pulled out this beauty of a factoid, and there’s no reason to doubt it: the IOC is good at keeping stats and the Classical and Hellenistic-era Greeks weren’t bad either. Leonidas of Rhodes was a sprinter, apparently one of the best who ever lived, according to the mostly complete Olympic records first compiled by Hippias of Elas and updated and revised by later scholars. 
  
 The starting line at the ancient stadium, Olympia, Greece. Photo credit: Panagiotis Milonas/Getty Images 
  
 At the 154th Olympiad, held in 164 BCE, Leonidas completed the “triple,” winning the stadion sprint (about 200 meters*), the diaulos (twice the length of the stadion), and the hoplitodromos, a diaulos with the runners wearing a helmet and greaves and carrying a shield, the armor weighing more than 50 pounds. 
  
  
  
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 * The stadion was not a fixed length, but instead varied based on the length of the stadium was being used. At Olympia, that was 192.27 meters. The dialous was simply “there and back.” 
  
 Then Leonidas won the triple at the next three Olympic Games, in 160 BCE, 156 BCE, and 152 BCE. As Pausanias tells us, Leonidas, “the most famous runner...maintained his speed at its prime for four Olympiads, and won twelve victories for running.” 
  
 Leonidas must have been a true superstar in the eastern Mediterranean; the events in which he competed and won were among the most popular and most important an the ancient Olympics. The stadion traditionally opened each games, and the hoplitodromos closed them. Here, please enjoy(?) members of the 2010 Apollon Boedromia Symposium in Melbourne, Australia, reenacting the hoplitodromos. And yes, for maximum authenticity, they are nude. 
  
 The Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement confirms that Leonidas’s 12 wins (he was awarded wreaths, not medals), is an Olympic record, ancient or modern. Well, it was his Olympic record for a couple millennia-plus. Michael Phelps has tied him, and has two more chances to surpass him: the 200m individual medley on Thursday, and the 100m butterfly on Friday. 
  
 Still, I’d like to see Phelps do this while wearing armor. 
  
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Michael Phelps will try to break an ancient Olympic record this week. The swimmer has won 21 Olympic gold medals, 12 of them in individual events—and those dozen personal medals mean Phelps has tied an Olympic record that had been held for 2,168 years, Deadspin reports. Olympic historian Bill Mallon was first to report that Phelps had tied the record held by Leonidas of Rhodes, a sprinter who won multiple events at the 154th Olympiad in 164 BCE, and then at the next three Games, ultimately winning 12 individual titles. But, as Deadspin notes, he got wreaths instead of medals to mark his victories. Phelps could potentially overtake Leonidas: He competes in the 200m individual medley Thursday and the 100m butterfly Friday. (Check out this picture of 9-year-old Katie Ledecky getting Phelps' autograph a decade ago.)