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Message: <blockquote data-quote="r.pathirana" data-source="post: 20542414" data-attributes="member: 371091">Rio Olympics 2016: Katie Ledecky beats Jazz Carlin in 800m freestyle<img src="http://img.techpowerup.org/160813/capture529.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Jazz Carlin won Olympic silver for Great Britain in the women's 800m freestyle, as Katie Ledecky secured her fourth gold medal of the Rio Games.American Ledecky, 19, took nearly two seconds off her own world record to win in eight minutes 4.79 seconds, nearly 12 seconds clear of the rest.Carlin, 25, was her nearest challenger, securing her second silver of the Games having finished second in the 400m freestyle earlier in the week.Hungary's Boglarka Kapas took bronze.Ledecky's dominant display rounded off a stunning debut Olympics with a world record nearly 14 seconds faster than what it stood at when Rebecca Adlington set it at the Beijing Olympics."I had a lot of fun tonight," Ledecky said. "I just wanted to push myself and see what I could do."</blockquote>

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