No. Not gymnastics age cheats. Not this time. 🙂
… Ye Shiwen is a 16-year-old Chinese swimming prodigy who won two gold medals in London this week, obliterating her competition and setting a world record in the 400 meter individual medley, and people think she cheated. John Leonard, the executive director of U.S. Swimming, labeled Ye’s win “disturbing.”
In addition to setting a world record, her final 50 meters in the 400 medley were faster than Ryan Lochte, who won the gold for the men. As the U.S. director told The Guardian afterward, “The final 100m was impossible. Flat out. To swim three other splits at the rate that she did, which was quite ordinary for elite competition, and then unleash a historic anomaly, it is just not right.”
“We want to be very careful about calling it doping,” he added. “The one thing I will say is that history in our sport will tell you that every time we see something, and I will put quotation marks around this, ‘unbelievable’, history shows us that it turns out later on there was doping involved.” …
China Paranoia: Ye Shiwen, Doping, And The Rush To Be Respectfully Offensive
I’m still not convinced that Lance Armstrong is guilty.
So I’ll praise Ye Shiwen as one of the great Olympians in London … until proven wrong.
Besides, China’s not a nation to cheat. Are they?
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