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From the Bleachers by Cormac Eklof

Ye Shiwen’s ridiculous swimming Gold medal time a little fishy, to say the least

Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM

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Seriously, does China think we are really that stupid? Do they honestly think we are that completely brain-dead that they can just ram another human steroid down our throats and we won’t notice them smashing World records like they were Tibetan protests? The Olympics are off to a fine start by all accounts however China seem determined to wipe the shine off the five famous rings, and has apparently learnt nothing from being caught doping on several occasions recently.

In 2009 five junior Chinese swimmers were banned after testing positive for the anabolic agent clenbuterol at the 2008 national junior championships. In 1994 China ‘dominated’ the Rome world championships, when its drug-riddled women ‘won’ 13 of the 16 available golds, and were subsequently banned by all World swimming federations.

Basically, China has priors.

Well, apparently they think we aren’t watching or perhaps they think we have the memory retention of your average goldfish, as they are clearly at it again. Chinese ‘swimmer’ Ye Shiwen won the 400m IM gold in a world record time of 4min 28.43sec with a final 50m where she was quicker than none other than Ryan Lochte, who himself won the men's 400m IM in the second-fastest time in history.

Let’s spell that out for all and sundry.

China thinks we are going to believe that a 16 year old called Ye Shiwen won the 400m fair and square in a time that bested Ryan Lochte’s, which in turn was the second fastest time in history.

The Chinese girl clocked 28.93secs for the last 50m compared to the 27 year-olds 29.10secs while she also nearly beat his time for the last 100m at 58.68secs compared to 58.65secs when he raced just minutes earlier. Her ridiculous last two lengths would have also beaten Michael Phelps, before Lochte, the fastest man in that event.

In case you think this is an isolated incident, China won more gold medals in the pool on the first day than it did during the entire Olympics in Beijing four years ago.

Thankfully the worlds various swimming organisations have all expressed serious reservations about this insane ‘achievement’ and will be monitoring the test results of the Chinese teams steroid checks. The swimming bodies can hold on to those results for 8 years, and they believe that any masking agents or other chemicals will eventually be figured out, allowing them to find anything hidden deep in the molecular breakdown of the results.

Then, we will know the truth, and hopefully China will be banned from competing in International swimming until they finally stop cheating.

Then, or when this 16 year old Frankenstein develops an Adams apple and a penis.

That, either.

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jim1980 | Aug 03, 2012, 04:32 PM EDT

By the way, Katie Ledecky improved her personal time by 21 secs in one year in 800m race while Ye only improved in 5 secs in 400m. Katie is clearly more guilty in my eye.

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jim1980 | Aug 03, 2012, 04:19 PM EDT

Cormac Eklof, I hope you will also write same thing about US swimmers as well Since US athletes also found guilty of cheating many times before. As you correctly put, US athletes have plenty of Prior as well. Please write same article about Missy FrankLin or Katie Ledecky since they too came out of nowhere to dominate the Olympic. If you don't, you are hypocrite.

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joepen5 | Aug 02, 2012, 04:28 PM EDT

So... WoundedKnee/DaddyMac22. You mates are friends right? Your like two girls pulling each others hair. This is someones opinion ... no?

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DaddyMac22 | Aug 02, 2012, 05:58 AM EDT

@ WoundedKnee : not to mention your slanderous, aggressive, trolling comments, which you post on a daily basis across the board! You are probably the biggest troll I have ever seen.

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WoundedKnee | Aug 02, 2012, 03:30 AM EDT

daddyMac: You are an out and out liar and libeller. In your latest post you make various claims, but you in no way address or offer any evidence for the two claims you made in your original post. You said Michelle "apologized for cheating". That's a lie. You said Michelle "was stripped of her medals". That's a lie, and a libel. Irish Central is being very imprudent in publishing libellous statements such as yours.

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DaddyMac22 | Aug 01, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT

A little background on Michelle Smith: Smith later received a four-year suspension in 1998 after being found guilty of tampering with a urine sample. The ban was imposed after a urine sample taken during a routine random drug test was found to be contaminated with alcohol.[1] During her appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, it was revealed that a banned testosterone precursor, Androstenedione, had been found in the samples taken on January 1998, and also in samples from two previous tests. The International Olympic Committee in 1997 banned androstenedione and placed it under the category of androgenic-anabolic steroids.[2]

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WoundedKnee | Aug 01, 2012, 02:42 PM EDT

DaddyMac: You're a fool, but I'll give you some free advice, and to Irish Central also. Concerning your falsehoods about Ms Smith, I would remind you that there is an expanding archive of case law on internet libel. Be careful of the lies you post or publish.

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WoundedKnee | Aug 01, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT

DaddyMac: "Michelle Smith was stripped of her medals and has apologized for cheating". That's an utter lie. You're a despicable liar or a fool, take your pic. Both of your dirty claims are false, you lying fool.

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DaddyMac22 | Jul 31, 2012, 11:56 AM EDT

@ WoundedKnee: I am sorry, maybe you missed it, Michelle Smith was stripped of her medals and has apologized for cheating, I fail to see how that is a suitable comparison? They said the same things, and 'they' were correct!

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WoundedKnee | Jul 31, 2012, 11:24 AM EDT

You're just jealous, Eklof. They said the same things about the Irish girl who won a gold a few Olympics back.

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DaddyMac22 | Jul 31, 2012, 09:55 AM EDT

@ Baggie68 : did you actually read the article, do YOU think a 16 year old girl, unheard of on the circuit before, can suddenly smash records that MEN set previously? Doesn't seem fishy to you??

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Baggie68 | Jul 31, 2012, 06:23 AM EDT

Sour grapes by the Yanks. Do you think she is not being tested?

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