First controversy of the Olympics

[Doc Holiday]

Still waiting for them to catch her. Meanwhile the cheating whorebeast won her second gold.

blood doping is the near as hard as hgh to test, so it may be some time before they catch her, it's not as easy as testing for steroids.

but to quote someone who would definitely know better then you: (besides myself that is)

this was said by John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association. (think of him like the Roger Goodell of swimming.)

“Any time someone has looked like superwoman in the history of our sport they have later been found guilty of doping”. Ye was more than seven seconds faster in the 400m individual medley than she had been in the equivalent race of the World Championships last year. While Leonard accepted that such improvement was feasible, he described the final 100m as “impossible”. He added: “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. 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.”

I would also say the is a big history of the Chinese cheating in the olympics, like the girls on the gymnastics team in 2008.

[Zod]

Swimmers at that level don't improve by 5 seconds overnight. Thats like a weight lifter adding 100 pounds to his max bench overnight.

[SuperLego5]

Ian Thorpe took 5 seconds off his time to break a WR when he was at his peak. However, I do tend to agree, the Chinese have a history of cheating, especially recently so it wouldn't surprise me.

[Brooklyn Bully]

I guess innocent until proven guilty only counts for white people.

[pstall]

since white people are truly at the center of this issue, i wonder if this girl wears baggy jeans?

[Mother Grabber]

Having been a swimmer through NCAA level, this one really baffles me. I can jump in the pool right now, after not having had an organized practice in 20 years, and qualify for the women's national tournament. There is a HUGE separation between men and women in swimming.

For a woman to swim a 100 free at the same pace as a man just doesn't compute to me. For her to swim it at the end of a 400IM, which is the hardest event in swimming (I know, I've done it), really doesn't compute. For her to split the last 50 FASTER than one of the fastest male swimmers in the entire world? That blows my head. I saw her do it, so I believe what I saw. I just find it extremely hard to believe she did it on the level. But...innocent until proven guilty.

[Mother Grabber]

Swimmers at that level don't improve by 5 seconds overnight. Thats like a weight lifter adding 100 pounds to his max bench overnight.

for the most part this is true...but it can happen

[Chimera]

It doesn't have to be blood doping necessarily. High altitude training will get those extra oxygenated red blood cells perfusing through the bod..... Holy hell she swam the last 50 of a 400 THAT fast?

Got my best open 50 time beat by 12 seconds.

[Doc Holiday]

for the most part this is true...but it can happen

Not on the international level, a increase of 5 tenths of a seconds considered really good, 5 though is un heard of

[Mother Grabber]

I did take notice of the amount of her time drop. 5 seconds is definitely something, but it pales in comparison to the fact that she swam the last 100 as fast as Lochte, and the last 50 faster. That's just inconceivable. She's 15-16, and she beat Lochte in the last 50 of a 400? That's just on another stratosphere of unbelievable.

I just can't stress enough how big the separation is between men and women in swimming. I swam in practice what women swim in national tournaments...and I was just average from the men's point of view. That's how big it is.

[Anybodyhome]

I guess innocent until proven guilty only counts for white people.

Ever seen Chinese athletes? Doesn't get much whiter than that.

[MadHatter]

Now the second scandal of the Olympics. Badminton teams disqualified for tanking matches to get better draws. And guess which team is at the middle......the Chinese.

Number one and two teams in the world were disqualified.

Sorry guys. The pressures the government puts on Olympic success leads to this. The Chinese programs have been long known for cheating.

Seems like some things just never change.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Ever seen Chinese athletes? Doesn't get much whiter than that.

I thought Asians were supposed to be yellow?

/sarcasm

[Anybodyhome]

Now the second scandal of the Olympics. Badminton teams disqualified for tanking matches to get better draws. And guess which team is at the middle......the Chinese.

Number one and two teams in the world were disqualified.

Sorry guys. The pressures the government puts on Olympic success leads to this. The Chinese programs have been long known for cheating.

Seems like some things just never change.

We'd probably cheat if in we were in their shoes. After all, what's worse than, "You lose, you and your parents spend the rest of your lives in a prison farm" or, "You lose, you disappear like political activist."