Katie Ledecky Spent Her Childhood Embracing GOATs Michael Jordan And Michael Phelps

Katie Ledecky has been one of the biggest breakout stars of the Rio Olympics. The 19-year-old American swimmer has already won three gold medals and a silver in Brazil, and she still has a few more events on the horizon before her Games wrap up and she gets ready to go to college, where she will presumably break every record possible because she’s a multiple-time Olympic gold medalist.

But as Ledecky’s legend continues to grow, we are learning more and more about one of the most dominant swimmers in the world right now. For example, did you know that when she was a child, Ledecky got the opportunity to meet the greatest basketball player of all-time and the greatest swimmer to ever live?

That’s right, Katie Ledecky met the greatest of all-time in two separate sports when she was a child. It’s not a bad pair of people to come across as a kid: Jordan is the perfect person from which to learn hyper-competitiveness and how to win, and Phelps is a pretty good person to idolize if you want to be the best swimmer of your generation.

This makes us wonder what other pictures of Ledecky meeting famous people are out there. Is there a picture of her with Tom Hanks? German chancellor Angela Merkel? The Core Four of the 1990s-2000s New York Yankees? Perhaps if you look close enough at every picture from the ’90s, Ledecky is in the background, plotting to win every single medal she can get her hands on when she’s not busy meeting every celebrity on Earth.