Maybe the Chinese Swimmer is Guilty of Steroid Use

[lame54]

Or Maybe - She Just Worked Really Hard For It

Either way -

Unless You Have ABSOLUTE PROOF

You Don't Ruin Her Dream Day And Then Sort It Out Later

[cthulu2016]

1. Yes, you do. Sorry.

This is not a criminal trial, it is talking about the Olympics.

If she wants to blame someone for her day being spoiled she can start with the Chinese swim program for having a history of massive cheating.

Of course she faces unusual scrutiny.

[obamanut2012]

3. Exactly -- the Chinese swimming program is known to be dirty

And has been for a long time.

I don't blame the swimmers 00 they have no choice, just like the East Germans didn't, but the odds are that every single Chinese swimmer at the Olympics is dirty, but their juice people are either using something new or are masking what they are using very well.

Marion Jones and many others came up clean, too, and some were either never caught or publicly exposed (which is what I'm betting happened with Flo Jo, because she was dead).

[lame54]

6. She was cleared by the WADA...

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http://www.scotsman.com/sport/london-2012-olympics-chinese-swimmer-ye-shiwen-cleared-of-doping-by-wada-says-olympic-chief-colin-moyinhan-1-2441861

and the BOA

The $30 million state-of-the-art laboratory in Harlow, Essex is a short distance from the Olympic Park in east London and is fully accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
"I think it's a significant involvement," WADA's director general David Howman told CNN.
"The laboratory will have everything it could possibly need in terms of equipment. If athletes go to London, they know if they are cheating they are likely to be caught."

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/12/sport/drugs-london-2012-olympics-laboratory/index.html

If their shady past is all there is to go on - a more discreet inquiry would have been appropriate.

A loud public accusation is wrong

[Motown_Johnny]

2. True, but the increase in performance is suspect.

I don't have the numbers in front of me but as I understand it she beat her best time by so much that it seems impossible for her to have done it on her own.

This is when you just need to trust in the people who's job it is to sort these things out. Nothing for any of the rest of us to do but wait for their findings.

[lame54]

7. what measures impossible?...

She beat the best man?

is that the litmus test?

[Motown_Johnny]

9. compared to her other times

I don't know why they keep bringing up Lochte's times


BTW, here tests came back and they say she was clean, so that is that.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. Lance Armstrong came up clean initially too...

and while it doesn't seem that he has failed any tests yet, they are leveling charges and suspending him from competing...

sP

[amandabeech]

8. She also swam the last lap of one of the IMs or relays faster than the gold medal winning guy.

It was Lachte (?), and he looks amazingly fit and powerful.

It would be like a woman running the 100 meters as fast as Usain Bolt. There would be questions if that happened.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Shw also swam it slower than 4 guys in Lochte's final

3rd: HAGINO Kosuke 28.52
4th: PHELPS Michael 28.44
6th: HORIHATA Yuya 27.87
7th: FRASER-HOLMES Thomas 28.35
http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event=swimming-men-400m-individual-medley/
YE Shiwen 28.93
http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/women-400m-individual-medley/index.html

Lochte was comfortably in the lead (3.44 seconds in front of 2nd at the final turn) - he may have slowed (though he still swam the final length faster than the guy in 2nd). Lochte swam the whole thing nearly 20 seconds faster than Ye. Her world record time for the whole 400m would have placed her 34th in the men's heats, beating 3 guys from Macedonia, El Salvador and Qatar (and a guy from Tunisia who was disqualified).

This would be like a woman recording a faster final 100m in an 800m foot race than the winner of the men's 800m, when he had eased up after building a comfortable lead - and still finishing 10 seconds behind him.

[SidDithers]

17. You always have such well analysed, well sourced posts...

So very well done.

Sid

[malaise]

4. Well said

and she won another gold today

[Pithlet]

5. Sorry, I'm not buying it.

I think she's cheating.

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Toon

[Odin2005]

11. Or maybe the American coach is just a jealous asshole.

[FSogol]

12. Exactly. Do we lead the world in sore-loserism too?

Unless they have proof, they should STFU.

[Posteritatis]

16. Yep. (nt)

[Earth_First]

15. Lance Armstrong has taken (and passed) over 500 random screenings...

What's a single test by the IOC for what seems like a suspicious performance?

[lame54]

18. then let him be already

[RagAss]

19. Here's one explanation....