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July 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen smashed world record by a second and her own personal best by five seconds
- Coach John Leonard said history suggested doping could be involved
- Called feat ‘impossible’ and said tests would prove if she had taken drugs
- Swam last 50m faster than U.S. champion Ryan Lochte in the men’s finals
By
David Williams and Katherine Faulkner
11:25 EST, 30 July 2012
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08:38 EST, 31 July 2012
A diplomatic storm was brewing last night over Olympic swimming sensation Ye Shiwen.
The Chinese 16-year-old was forced to deny using drugs after a respected US coach called her gold medal-winning performance ‘unbelievable’.
But her defiant pledge that the world record-breaking swim on Saturday – which saw her outpace the winner of the men’s event – came purely from ‘hard work and training’ failed to defuse a doping controversy gripping London 2012.
Record breaker: Ye Shiwen knocked five seconds off her personal best and broke the world record by more than a second as she stormed to gold in the 400m individual medley
Beaten: Ryan Lochte, pictured, was slower than Ye over the last 50 metres of his own medley race
John Leonard, the US executive
director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, described Saturday’s
swim by ‘Supergirl’ Miss Ye – who last night broke the Olympic record
in another event – as ‘unbelievable’ and ‘disturbing’.
He also made the extraordinary suggestion that the Chinese could be using genetic manipulation to enhance performances.
Outspoken: Top US swimming coach John Leonard called the feat ‘unbelievable’
His claims came as anti-doping
officials revealed that cleaners and security staff have been asked to
spy on athletes in the Olympic Village and report anything suspicious
that could be linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
Miss Ye’s gold medal came in the 400m
individual medley, in which she swam the last 50m of the freestyle leg
in 28.93 seconds – compared with the 29.1 seconds that 27-year-old
American Ryan Lochte managed in the men’s event minutes earlier.
Her time for the whole event was more than five seconds better than her previous best.
Pressed on the use of drugs she told
the China News Service last night: ‘There is absolutely no problem with
doping. The Chinese have always had a firm policy about doping. My
results come from hard work and training and I would never use any
banned drugs. The Chinese people have clean hands.’
But Mr Leonard compared the final 100m
swum by Miss Ye as being ‘reminiscent’ of some old East German
swimmers, several of whom were subsequently exposed for using
performance-enhancing drugs.
He said Miss Ye looks like Superwoman,
adding: ‘Any time someone has looked like Superwoman in the history of
our sport they have later been found guilty of doping.’
If someone could outpace one of the
fastest male swimmers in the world and finish three-and-a-half lengths
ahead of her nearest female rival, he said, ‘all those things, I think,
legitimately call that swim into question’.
Head and shoulders above: The teenager (centre) holds an unassailable lead during her gold medal winning 400 metre medley race
Proud: Ye said her success was due to her training since she was identified as a potential champion
Medal winners: Ye Shiwen shows off the gold alongside the United States’ Elizabeth Beisel, left, and compatriot Li Xuanxu following the final
Mr Leonard also called for an
investigation into the Chinese, saying they could be using genetic
manipulation.
‘It is a result that demands an explanation – it is
unprecedented,’ he told the Mail. Genetic manipulation in animals, he
said, had given added strength and oxygen usage. ‘Who knows what it can
do to humans?’ he added.
CHINA: A HISTORY OF DRUG USE
Questions over Shiwen’s performance come after a string of Chinese swimmers tested positive for doping in recent years.
China won 12 of the 16 women’s titles at the 1994 world championships in Rome but these achievements were sullied less than a month later when seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for banned drugs at the Asian Games in Hiroshima.
At the 1998 world championships in Perth, four Chinese competitors were sent home after testing positive for steroids. It came a week after one of their team mates and her coach were caught smuggling human growth hormone at Sydney Airport.
China’s top backstroke swimmer and
record holder Ouyang Kunpeng, now 29, was given a lifetime ban after he
tested positive for the same substance a month before the 2008 Beijing
Olympics. The ban was later changed to two years.
In 2009, five junior Chinese swimmers were banned for two years by the country’s swimming association after they tested positive for the anabolic agent clenbuterol – a performance-enhancing drug.
And in June Chinese state media said
16-year-old Li Zhesi, part of the country’s winning team at the 2009
World Championships, had tested positive for a performance-enhancing
drug, EPO, which boosts the body’s oxygen supplies.
And he said Miss Ye’s performance had
brought ‘back a lot of awful memories’ of Irish swimmer Michelle Smith’s
winning performance at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
Smith was banned
for four years in 1998 for tampering with a drugs test.
As a gold medal winner, Miss Ye will have been automatically drug-tested. The first four in each race are routinely tested.
Last night she continued her
astonishing success by setting a new Olympic record in the semi-finals
of her best event, the 200m individual medley, with a time of 2 mins
8.39 seconds.
Jonathan Harris, London 2012’s head of
anti-doping, said that organisers had made security, cleaning, events
services and others ‘very aware of the issue of doping, so if they were
to come across practices, paraphernalia, whatever it may be, then they
would bring it to our attention and, of course, we would investigate
this and treat it as intelligence.’
A source close to the British swimming
team, who did not want to be named, said yesterday: ‘There has been a
lot of talk since Saturday about the Chinese swimmers, particularly Ye,
and how they are managing to come out of nowhere and achieve these
incredible times.
‘We all know about the kind of punishing regimes the
Chinese swimmers are put through.’
One insight came on Sunday. After
winning silver in the 100m butterfly, Chinese athlete Lu Ling said: ‘In
China we’re used to study, study and train, train and then rest. I think
our way of thinking has many limits. In Australia I’ve been invited to
barbecues with my teammates – that would never happen in China.’
Officials say there have been 1,461
drug tests carried out so far in this Olympics – no results are yet
known – and that testers can take samples at any time.
Prof John Brewer, Board Member of UK Anti-Doping and Director of Sport at the University of Bedfordshire, said: ‘The drug testing procedures in place at the London 2012 Olympics are extremely rigorous and the storage of samples for eight years after the Games makes doping an very high risk strategy.
‘We should not be surprised by exceptional performances since Gold medal winning athletes are inevitably different to the rest of us due to their talent, training and lifestyles.
‘It’s also worth remembering that China has a vast pool of talent to choose from due to the size of its population, so we should not be too surprised when an individual with exceptional talent emerges.’
Congratulations: Ye Shiwen hugs Xuanxu Li after her victory at the Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park
Sensation: Ye Shiwen managed to swim the final 50m length in the race in
a time of 28.93, a time that was quicker than the men’s champion Ryan
Lochte
Disappointed: Lochte shakes hand with Michael Phelps after they won silver in the 4x100m relay
Reminiscent? Irish swimmer Michelle Smith won four medals in Atlanta in 1996 – but was later found to have contaminated drug tests in an attempt to hide drug use
VIDEO: British Olympics Chief: Ye Shiwen is clean, end of story
VIDEO: Ye Shiwen video. The IOC reacts to China supergirl swimmer allegations
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Pot calling kettle black I think .
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If the Americans can’t prove it, pls just shut up. When an American does good job, it is natural, but when a Chinese does a good job, it is drugs. How rediculous some Americans’ logic are…
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Usain Bolt did the same, rewrote the record book,,,,,,,,,,,,,,once in a while nature throws up someone who performs better than others. She will be tested I am sure, superb swimmer,
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TEST HER!!! Put it to rest either way.
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The tragedy here is that everyone is questioning ONLY if China is cheating. No one seems to have mentioned the horrific possibility that once again, a nation is so desperate for medals that is risks seriously damaging the body of a young person in order to do so. The WHOLE focus seems to be on the country, not concern for the person. You can lay your bets that IF there has been cheating, it’s without the clear knowledge of the young swimmer.
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Has everyone come down with the Dumb Virus? Ryan Lochte beat her time by over 23 seconds. She was 14 seconds SLOWER than the LAST man in the men’s race. To say she is ‘faster’ than Lochte is as ridiculous as saying Usain Bolt is faster than a formula one car because he is quicker over the first 10 metres.
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Would the coach have made the same comment if someone he coached had achieved what this girl has achieved ?…. Accusations like these simply damage the Olympic moral and it leads to situation were winners instead of being applauded are victimised, scrutinised and their reputation tarnished until proven innocent. Who would want to win anything under those kind of circumstances !
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Ayariga, Bawku, Ghana, 31/7/2012 3:21
You need to think (or research) before you put snide comments on here.Then you will avoid red arrows. I thought everyone knew that Chinese have an English name and a Chinese name. You didn’t? Oh dear.
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Remember the last Olympics? An Irish girl beat an American and she was quickly accused openly of being on drugs. Turns out she was a better swimmer. Those yanks are sore losers.
– Alan, London, 31/7/2012 7:52……………You may want to check your facts more closely, because that irish swimmer was tested positive and banned for 4 years following that race.
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Who’s surprised at an American’s sour grapes comment – – I’m not. We’ve seen it over the years whenever they get beat fair and square. Why the article headline should say that the Chinese teen was forced to deny drug taking is outrageous. She was asked and she denied it, let the lab do the tests and stop looking for sensationalist headlines. This article is synonymous with the famous painting; ‘When did you last see your father’ by William Yeames.
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