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FILE - In this July 25, 2017, file photo, United States' Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the gold medal in the women's 1500-meter freestyle final during the swimming competitions of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Ledecky was named The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Katie Ledecky swims to AP Female Athlete of the Year honors

By Beth Harris - Associated Press

United States' gold medal winner Katie Ledecky is flanked by Italy's bronze medal winner Simona Quadarella, right, and Spain's silver medal winner Mireia Belmonte during the ceremony after the women's 1500-meter freestyle final during the swimming competitions of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Katie Ledecky breezes to 3rd worlds gold, brash Lilly King wins again

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2016, file photo, United States' Lilly King celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's 100-meter breaststroke final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. King is always willing to offer up an opinion. She doesn't care if it makes headlines, doesn't mind rubbing people the wrong way. In the staid world of swimming, that makes her really stand out. She just wishes there were more athletes willing to take a stand. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Outspoken US swimmer Lilly King refuses to stay in her lane

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

Correction: Europe-Hungary story

By RAF CASERT and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Head of the bid of Budapest for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Balazs Furjes addresses the General Assembly of the City of Budapest with Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos, right, and Vice Mayor Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky in the background in the town hall in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

Officials see Budapest’s 2024 bid chances slipping away

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Head of the bid of Budapest for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Balazs Furjes addresses the General Assembly of the City of Budapest with Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos, right, and Vice Mayor Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky in the background in the town hall in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

Budapest to withdraw bid to host 2024 Summer Olympics

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

President of the civic Momentum Movement Andras Fekete-Gyor, center, submits the collected signatures of Budapest residents against the bid of the Hungarian capital to host the the 2024 summer Olympic games in Budapest, in the Municipal Electoral Office, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Mayor says Budapest may decide next week on Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto at the to Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Vladimir Putin visits Hungary, his 1st trip to the EU since the U.S. election

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

This photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 shows former Hungarian trumpet player Ervin Vaszondi. He was one of the musicians whose band recorded jazz tunes with the help of an American diplomat who rented a recording studio in Budapest in 1956. At the time, jazz was banned in Hungary by the communist regime but the recordings of the Hungarian musicians were broadcast by the Voice of America in Nov. 1956. (AP Photo/Andras Nagy)

Hungarian musicians recall secret jazz recordings from 1956

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Officials reject referendum on Budapest’s 2024 Olympic bid

Associated Press

A migrant enters the territory of Hungary by crossing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Edvard Molnar/MTI via AP)

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

By Balint Szlanko and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

A father carries his child as they arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in various trains to get first registration as asylum seekers in Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Exhaustion, elation as 6,500 migrants reach Austria, Germany

By Shawn Pogatchnik and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

Migrants shout slogans in front of the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as hundreds demanded to be let on trains to Germany. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Hungary blocks migrants from trains; 11 drown off Turkey

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

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DAVID R. SANDS: After 26 years at the top, Judit Polgar surpassed by Chinese chess challenger

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times