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This all-girls high school has more swimming medals than most countries

Swimmers from 189 countries are in the Paris Olympics pool competing for medals. The official medals table doesn’t show this, but a small all-girls Catholic school from Bethesda, Md., has bagged more hardware than all but seven of them. If Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart was a properly recognized delegation, it would find itself ahead of Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Japan, Switzerland and so many others.

The Republic of Stone Ridge, of course, is led by Katie Ledecky, who is responsible for three of the four Stone Ridge medals, one of each color. The fourth, a silver, was won by 19-year-old Erin Gemmell. (Because it was the same relay medal as Ledecky’s, the official Olympic number-crunchers wouldn’t count it separately, but no one at Stone Ridge is going to discount it one bit.) Read More

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