NEW YORK — Katie Ledecky returned home from Rio and got on her bike.
Stanford prohibits freshmen from having cars on campus. Ledecky, now a five-time Olympic champion, still doesn’t have a driver’s license anyway.
So the college-bound swimmer took her three weeks between the Olympics and move-in to acquaint with life on land on two wheels.
Ledecky spent two years volunteering for Bikes for the World in high school, assembling bikes, but her riding was apparently not as smooth as her freestyle stroke.
In late August, Ledecky could often be seen wheeling at a park down the street from her family’s house in Bethesda, Md.