Yahoo Sports Katie Grimes: 5 facts about Team USA's teenage phenom set to make Olympic history in the pool and open water
For the Paris Olympics this summer, For The Win is helping you get to know some of the star Olympians competing on the world’s biggest stage. We’re highlighting 15 Team USA athletes in the 15 days leading up to the Opening Ceremony. Up next is Katie Grimes.
1. At 18 years old, Katie Grimes is already a two-time Olympian
2. Grimes will be the first American woman to compete in the pool and open water events at the same Olympic Games
longest event in the pool and one that Ledecky is favored to win Seine River an alternate venue river be too dirty to swim in Grimes was the first Team USA athlete to qualify for Paris
3. Grimes knows where she'll swim in college... but we don't
4. Grimes is an old soul with a love for classic cars, including her orange 1969 Chevy Corvette Stingray
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5. Grimes' historic Olympic journey begins on July 29
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