Posted on 07/30/2012 6:57:51 AM PDT by trailhkr1
Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen smashed world record by a second and her own personal best by five seconds
Last 50m was slightly faster than men's gold medallist Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte knocked Olympic icon Michael Phelps off his perch on Saturday with a brilliant performance to win the men's 400m individual medley.
But just minutes later, in the women's version of the event, a 16-year-old Chinese prodigy performed an even more amazing feat as she smashed the world record and left her competitors far behind.
Ye Shiwen posted such a good time that her final 50m was in fact faster than Lochte's performance in the men's event, at just 28.93 seconds. Her achievement was so unprecedented that it even led some broadcasters to question whether Ye had benefited from underhand practices.
Chinese swimming has previously been tainted by drug scandals – another 16-year-old world champion tested positive for doping last month – but Foster sought to play down any suggestion of cheating.
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Grrrrrrl power!
I rely on freepers like you to fill me in on those ‘special moments’
Many thanks
Marija Sestak... Slovanian triple jumper watch at the .08 time...(clutching my heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AB1Yr91UKU&feature=player_embedded
and the .38 time..full on heart attack.
We thought it was bad 40 years ago.
Socialist indoctrination in the opening ceremonies?
Rap?
Homosexuals going wild?
Heteros going wild?
Six hours of volleyball on a weekend?
More volleyball?
Thus far, my watching time has hovered around 5%. I tune in, check what's on. Tune out.
I remember 30 years ago, my daughter and I watched closer to 80%.
Things change.
For the worse.
These Olympics suck.
Sir, you have caused me to lust.
I miss Jim McKay.
Oh my, that girl is a very well rounded athelete.
bkmk
Five seconds!? The Chi-coms have obviously produced GM swimmers. I’d look for webbing between fingers and toes, and a blow hole atop their heads.
They get the blow hole in the back of their heads if they loose. But not until they get back to china.
Her masters know how to motivate her.
Bump for later
Check for drugs and an electric shock collar.
That was my first thought too.
http://swimming.about.com/od/swimmingolympics/tp/Olympic-Swimming-Controversy.htm
1992, 1996, 2000 - Chinese Women’s Swim Team
Mike Hewitt/Allsport/Getty Images
From nothing to four Golds at the 1992 World Champs and the 1992 Olympics to 12 Golds at the 1994 World Champs. That kind of improvement is questionable. At the 94 Asian Games, 11 Chinese women swimmers tested positive for dihydrotestosterone; at the 96 Olympics they only won a single gold medal, and no positive tests. 98 World Champs and four swimmers tested positive, plus human growth hormone was found in a swimmer’s luggage. Before the 2000 Olympics, China removed four women from its squad for odd test results and no swimmer from China earned any medals. At the 2004 Olympics, none of the swimmers tested positive and they earned one gold medal. That is a a lot of up and down in the medal count, and a lot of positive drug tests.
"Every sports official and physician in the DDR knew the athletes were being injected with steroids. All the competitors could tell. But for the athletes themselves, many were being injected without their knowledge. When the wall came down in 1989, the curtain went up on the whole East German chemical program. It was discovered that East German doctors were regularly injecting their stars with steroids and hormones, telling the swimmers they were vitamins. Years later, many of the women who received the drugs were suffering from a variety of diseases, tumors, reproductive problems and mental health issues as a result of being chemically-enhanced. Turns out those 1976 and subsequent East German swimming medals were tarnished and then turned rotten."
http://fairlane.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/tarnished-metal/
That ain’t no girl!
Allegedly this is a woman.
A very sad story. If East Germany still existed, they should have stripped them of just about every medal they ever won.
I first read that as, "that girl is a very well mounded athelete."
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