[4rcane]

sound like a sore loser

[FreedomPoster]

Sounds like a realist.

[GeronL]

Actually China has a history of bending the rules and stuff. The North Korean Women’s soccer team is allowed to play for some reason, even though suspended from international competition for doping.

go figure

[Teacher317]

To swim three 100m strokes at near-record pace... and THEN swim a final 100m in 59 sec, MATCHING Ryan Lochte’s split for that same leg of the 400 IM (58.6)... when she is 16... and female... and swam the same race last year SEVEN seconds slower. This is an event where 4 seconds separate 1st from 8th place in most pools. Sorry. To tie the top male swimmer in the world on a split, when she is an unheralded and previously unremarkable swimmer? It defies credulity.

[Teacher317]

Chinese swimming has such a shameful history of doping that any remarkable achievement by one of its athletes is inevitably met with cynicism. In the 1990s more than 40 swimmers tested positive for doping.

In the 1994 world swimming championships, China won an improbable 12 gold medals and later that year seven swimmers tested positive for steroids at the Asian Games. At the following Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, they won just one gold.

Likely the Chinese have simply learned how to beat the doping tests.

[utahagen]

I disagree. I would put nothing past the Chinese government, which has a history of cheating (in addition to suppression of its citizens, murder of infant girls, etc.) This coach, John Leonard, was very detailed in elucidating why he thinks doping was involved. I don't get the impression he is motivated by resentment.

I believe this athlete was doping.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“sound like a sore loser”

No, they are the Chinese. Rules to them apply to others.

[ncalburt]

Are you this naive to the Chinese doping program ??

[2CAVTrooper]

Sore loser?

China is known to “enhance” their athletes. Just like the old Soviet Bloc countries did back in the day.