Summer McIntosh has adapted her competition schedules to embrace new challenges. At 18, she targets victories across five events at the upcoming world aquatics championships in Singapore. Having secured four medals at the Paris Olympics, she is primarily focusing on the 800 freestyle this year. McIntosh finds added motivation in managing her training across multiple strokes. Highlighting a desire to compete against top swimmer Katie Ledecky, she expresses excitement about this new challenge, which she has never faced at the world level before.
"I'm always kind of juggling all four strokes, which is always a good time in training how to figure that out, along with adding in the 800."
"I think overall, I am just excited to see how I manage doing five events, which I've never done before on the world level."
"Facing Katie Ledecky would be an awesome challenge and the American being so strong in her top form right now this season is also really cool to see."
"I've focused a little bit more on distance training... It's never going to hurt when you're trying to finish a 400 free or a 400 IM, let alone an 800."
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