Katie Ledecky among four gold-medal favorites for the Americans on Day 3 at swim worlds
The Americans have one gold from the first two days of the meet, clearly slowed by what team officials call 'acute gastroenteritis' picked up at a training camp in Thailand. But symptoms have faded and results seem sure to follow in Singapore.
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