Stephanie Rice, the Australian who won gold in both women's medley events in Beijing in , described Ye's performance as "insanely fast". Ariana Kukors, the world m medley champion from the US, has said it was "amazing" and "unbelievable". Leonard, who said Ye "looks like superwoman" added: "Any time someone has looked like superwoman in the history of our sport they have later been found guilty of doping. His comments are liable to further increase tensions between China — which has poured huge resources into its sporting programmes in recent years and topped the US in the medal table for the first time in Beijing four years ago — and the Americans.
Ye was more than seven seconds faster in the Olympic m individual medley final than she had been in the World Championship equivalent last July. Leonard said that although this vast improvement was possible, it would be very hard to achieve.
Flat out. If all her split times had been faster I don't think anybody would be calling it into question, because she is a good swimmer. But 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. Asked about the accusation that she was doping, Ye replied: "The Chinese team keep very firmly to the anti-doping policies, so there is absolutely no problem.
Leonard also questioned why Ye was not competing in the m or m freestyle, despite her phenomenal performance in that discipline in the medley, saying that was one of "a whole bunch of other questions". He has been executive director of the WSCA since I have heard commentators saying 'well she is 16, and at that age amazing things happen'. Well yes, but not that amazing. I am sorry. Leonard said that the consensus in the coaching community he represents was that the swim was "unbelievable".
Lochte ranked only fifth in the last 50 metres, at Ye's time was All of this information is available on the Internet. It is unfortunate that Nature seems to have put a stamp of scientific approval on the Western media's unsubstantiated speculation that Ye's feat is humanly impossible without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
We emphasize that our data serve only to provide a more complete backdrop to Ye's achievement, and not to negate her spectacular performance in winning two golds and shattering the world record. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. Correspondence to Hao Wu. Reprints and Permissions. Zhong, W. Some facts about Ye Shiwen's swim. There is, of course, no evidence to support such thoughts other than the talent and speed of the athletes themselves.
Surely the success of this young generation stems from a legacy of a very different kind — that of the Beijing Olympics. China has sent 49 swimmers to these Games, and 27 of them were born after On the women's side, there are eight who were born in or after. The country's success in the Aquatics Centre surely owes a lot to the investment in the sport made before the Games. Their medals could also owe something to the unique talent identification system China uses to stream children into different sports.
In his excellent profile of Yao Ming for the New Yorker , Pete Hessler, talks about how Chinese basketball players are selected strictly on the basis of their height and genealogy. Ye says she started swimming in because her "teacher spotted she had big hands". In swimming, where physique determines so much, the rather-rudimentary method of recruiting young athletes on the basis of their physical characteristics rather than their talent or inclination for the sport, appears to work well.
It is coupled, of course, to an infamously fierce training programme, to the point where Ye was asked whether she resented being treated like a robot. The year-old prodigy and her compatriot Sun Yang symbolise China's singular approach to talent-spotting. If you are a model, tiktoker, instagram Influencer It is a Platform where Influencers can meet up, Collaborate, Get Collaboration opportunities from Brands, and discuss common interests.
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