The Executive Director of the World Swimming Coaches Association has described the 16-year old Chinese birdâs swim the other night as disturbing and unbelievable. He compares it to Eastern Germans and 'the young Irish woman in Atlanta." :lol:
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âYoung Irish woman in Atlantaâ Brilliant, definitely not young and well, you know
Ye has just won her semi final there tonight in the 200 individual medley and sheâs not even breathing heavily after it.
All the Chinese athletes ate drugged to the eyeballs
She completed the freestyle leg in a faster time than Ryan Lochtie. Fucking hell, sheâs amazing.
Robots donât say Ye.
Post reported
Fuck off.
:lol: Taz has really come into his own in the past week or so.
Grainne Murphy
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Fuck off.[/quote]
Sickening junkie racist.
[size=4] China hits back at âbiasedâ critics of Ye Shiwenâs Olympic triumph[/size]
[size=3]Anti-doping chief says singling out Chinese swimmers is unfair after doubts are raised over gold medallistâs performance[/size]
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[font=arial][size=1]Chinaâs Ye Shiwen won a gold medal in the 400m individual medley at the 2012 Olympic Games. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images[/size][/font]
[size=3][font=arial]China[/url]'s anti-doping chief has hit back at âbiasedâ suspicions about the extraordinary triumph of the teenage gold medallist [url=âhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/ye-shiwenâ]Ye Shiwen.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âI think it is not proper to single Chinese swimmers out once they produce good results. Some people are just biased,â Jiang Zhixue, who leads anti-doping work at Chinaâs General Administration of Sport, told the state news agency Xinhua.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âWe never questioned Michael Phelps when he bagged eight gold medals in Beijing.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Chinese internet users have also reacted angrily to doubts about the 16-year-old swimmerâs stunning performance, accusing sceptics of jealousy or bitterness because their own countries are not performing as well.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]The controversy was sparked when a highly respected American coach described the prodigyâs extraordinary triumph in the 400m individual medley as âunbelievableâ, âsuspiciousâ and âdisturbingâ in an interview with the Guardian.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, said her performance brought back âa lot of awful memoriesâ of the Irish swimmer An unnamed person, who won the same race at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 but was banned two years later for tampering with a urine sample.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Concern has focused on Yeâs dramatic improvement in ability over the past year and on her acceleration in the last 100m of the 400m medley, in particular her final length â quicker than that of Ryan Lochte, who won the menâs individual medley in the second-fastest time in history.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]But others have argued that young athletes can make remarkable breakthroughs and have pointed to the way the Chinese system picks individuals for their physique and drills them rigorously.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Jiang said Chinaâs swimming team had made breakthroughs due to scientific training and sheer hard work.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]He added: "The Chinese athletes, including the swimmers, have undergone nearly 100 drug tests since they arrived here.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âMany were also tested by the international federations and the British anti-doping agency. I can tell you that so far there was not a single positive case.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]The deputy anti-doping chief Zhao Jian said Leonard âthinks too muchâ and urged people to wait for test results.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]He added: âIt seems in the sports world people always suspect good scores. You cannot assume a runner is not a normal person just because he runs faster. Those assumptions are not fair to any athlete.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for steroid use at the Asian Games in 1994. Four years later, four competitors were sent home after a routine customs check found a Chinese swimmer was carrying large amounts of banned growth hormones as she arrived at Perth for the World Championships.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]But Zhao said China had launched a major crackdown on doping, changing its laws, tests and training.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âIn 1990, when China started the doping test, we did 65 tests. Right now, we do 15,000 tests each year. As far as I know, America and Australia carry out 7,000 to 8,000 a year,â he said.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âAll Chinese athletes get anti-doping education and training, take an oath and take an exam. Our system is serious and severe.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Zhang Xinming, a reporter at Sports Illustrated who has followed Yeâs career, acknowledged that the 1990s scandals had given people a bad impression of Chinese swimmers, but added: âI donât think it is the case this time, because the freestyle is Yeâs strongest feature. I know her; Ye has the ability to win. Besides, the tests for Olympic Games athletes are very strict. It is not possible she was doped.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]After doubts were first raised, Ye herself said: âThe Chinese team keep very firmly to the anti-doping policies, so there is absolutely no problem.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Last month, Xinhua announced that another Chinese female swimmer, Li Zhesi, would not take part in the Olympics because she had tested positive for a blood-boosting drug in March.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]In 2009 five junior Chinese swimmers were banned after testing positive for the anabolic agent Clenbuterol at the 2008 national junior championships.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]China has blamed ambitious or ignorant individuals and coaches for problems. But last week, two former Chinese Olympic doctors described routine use of doping in the 1980s and into the early 1990s in interviews with the Sydney Morning Herald.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Chen Zhanghao, Chinaâs lead doctor for the Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona Games, claimed: "The United States, the Soviet Union and France were all using [steroids and growth hormones] so we did as well.[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]âSo how can you condemn China but not the USA or Soviet Union?â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]Chen added: âWe blindly believed them, like fools, because they all seemed like good people. But indeed they lied to us. After trying them ourselves, we made two conclusions: one is that training is the key, after all. And even in the US, taking drugs do not guarantee performance.â[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=arial]He also added that some athletes had rejected banned drugs.[/font][/size]
Did it in a new Olympic record and could have doggie paddled the last 10m and still win. Doper
Clearly not very good at it.
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