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Thea LaFond waited five years for this opportunity. The Rio 2016 Olympic Games had been disappointing. She had injured her hamstring during training and finished last in the women’s triple jump competition. The John F. Kennedy High School graduate and teacher yearned for another chance to show her ability and prove she belonged among the […]

Just one year removed from graduating from high school, Phoebe Bacon is closing in on her first Olympic medal while her fellow Stone Ridge School swimming alum Katie Ledecky is one race away from her 10th career Olympic medal. Competing in the women’s 200-meter backstroke, Bacon advanced in Thursday’s preliminaries and on Friday morning (Thursday […]

The 200-meter freestyle delivered one of the most shocking results of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games thus far, as Katie Ledecky swam in the finals of an international meet and failed to reach the podium for the first time in her prolific career. After finding redemption later Tuesday night by winning the gold medal in […]

Katie Ledecky, nativa de Bethesda y graduada de la escuela Stone Ridge, ganó la medalla de plata en los 400 metros estilo libre el lunes por la mañana, y el miércoles obtuvo la sexta medalla de oro de su carrera. PURE. DOMINANCE. Katie Ledecky is the first Olympic champion in the women's 1500m freestyle! #TokyoOlympics […]

One of the greatest Olympians of all time endured perhaps the most trying moments of her incredible career. Katie Ledecky, the Bethesda native and Stone Ridge School graduate, had never known anything other than Olympic gold in individual races until this week. But she was caught from behind and won silver in the 400-meter freestyle […]

Katie Ledecky dio todo lo que tenía el lunes por la mañana en Tokio (domingo por la noche en el condado de Montgomery), logrando la segunda puntuación más rápida en los 400 metros estilo libre femenino de su carrera, mientras intentaba repetir como medallista de oro del evento. Pero, la residente de Bethesda, quien ha […]

Friday night marked the reopening of the popular pub on Rockville Pike. Dietle’s had been a local lower county landmark since 1950, when an early morning fire on Valentine’s Day of 2018 destroyed the bar. Rising out of the ashes, thanks to a healthy GoFundMe, the tavern hosted a sold-out crowd. The tunes of King […]

Katie Ledecky gave it everything she had on Monday morning in Tokyo (Sunday night in Montgomery County), turning in the second-fast performance in the women’s 400-meter freestyle of her career as she tried to repeat as the event’s gold medalist. But the Bethesda resident and Stone Ridge School graduate’s sixth career gold medal will have […]

Bethesda native Andrew Wilson, who is believed to be the first swimmer ever to compete in NCAA Division III and make the U.S. Olympic Team, kept his Olympic dream alive as he claimed the eighth and final spot in Monday’s 100-meter breaststroke finals. Wilson advanced on Saturday through the preliminary heats and then in Sunday’s […]

As Thea LaFond walked into the stadium and shared the duties of carrying the Dominica flag in the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, there almost certainly were plenty of friends and family following along in Silver Spring. LaFond, who will compete in the triple jump representing the country in which she was born, teaches […]