I mean Lochte beat her time by over 23 seconds in the 400 IM on day one, but because she had a closing 50m faster than Lochte she is
cheating doping superhuman clearly faster than Lochte. It couldn't be down to the fact that Lochte absolutely flew on the first 300m and hung on out on his own, while Ye Shiwen had a race plan based on conserving energy for 300m, blasting her freestyle and had someone to chase down?
No, it can't be. I mean Lochte flips tyres and does strongman workouts, Florida runs "Stadiums". Do they even train in China?
As Gina Heyn points out on twitter, guess who had a faster closing 50m than both Ye Shiwen and Ryan Lochte.... Rebecca Adlington. In the 800 free final in Shanghai last year Adlington had a final 50 split of 28.91, two hundredths of a second faster than Ye Shiwen's closing split. Nobody questioned Adlington after her swim or how she was able to swim a "man's" split at the end of a gruelling 800 free, nor should they.
I had hoped after China's strong performance in Shanghai that we wouldn't be immediately reverting back to the doping argument after every great Chinese swim, but I guess we still do.
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