Posted on 08/02/2024 5:16:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
A leading Australian swimming coach has led criticism of Pan Zhanle’s stunning 100m freestyle world record after saying the Chinese swimmer’s performance in the pool was “not humanly possible”.
Brett Hawke led the international disbelief among some quarters after the 19-year-old stormed to gold in 46.40 seconds to beat nearest rival Kyle Chalmers by more than a second.
Pan destroyed a high-class field to shave almost half a
second off his own world record in the biggest winning margin in the men’s 100m freestyle since American Johnny Weissmuller in 1928, but his performance has been overshadowed by ongoing suspicions surrounding the Chinese team.
The 19-year-old said that he was not concerned by the doping row that has engulfed China’s swimming team at the Paris Games, despite being named in an investigation by The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD.
It reported that 23 athletes at Tokyo 2020 failed drugs tests for a banned heart medication, 11 of whom are competing in the Olympics, and a further two athletes were cleared after testing positive for a strong anabolic steroid in 2022 that was blamed on contaminated meat.
But in an animated video posted on his Instagram account, Hawke described it as a performance that “is not real” and said he had never encountered anything like it in three decades coaching in the sport.
“Listen, I’m just going to be honest, I am angry at that swim,” said Hawke, who did not specifically address recent allegations of Chinese doping cover-ups that have included multiple swimmers but not Pan himself.
“Look, I’m angry for a number of reasons. Look, my friends are the fastest swimmers in history, from Rowdy Gaines to Alex Popov to Gary Hall Jr, Anthony Ervin and all the way up to King Kyle Chalmers....
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Chinese steal and cheat in business sll the time. It is government policy to cheat.
Chinese using old East German vitamin consultants?
Gee the Chinese might be doping? I’m shocked. /sarc
Ok wait a minute. Its "humanly possible" to swim it in 46.4, but not a single second faster?
I’m surprised they don’t have size 20 webbed feet.
You caught them! They’re using swimming cyborgs. Unless it’s a man competing against a woman, how do you cheat? Is this an instance of a man against woman? I don’t know, I don’t watch or read about that garbage.
I dated a girl in HS that had webbed feet....................
Stealing is part of their ‘culture’. They consider it a virtue to pull something over on others to gain the upper hand.
Who will call them out, if they are doping?
Move along, all.
I think the point is it is a tremendous issue in swimmers, when the difference between them is measured in tiny fractions of a second & to suddenly best someone with one entire second is out of the ordinary.
Perhaps the Chinese guy is not eating McDonalds, not getting vaccines, and focused on training instead of social media?
When the swim times are measured in hundredths of seconds, you can understand why a full second faster raises eyebrows.
Old Chinese saying, “If you are not cheating, you are not trying. If you get caught, you did not try hard enough.”
Brandon has just issued a preemptive pardon, medal of honor, fentanyl patent, and Supreme Court seat to the CCP swimmer.
Nod.
What’s amazing is the US is keeping up.
Did she quack?
They don’t drug test them? If they don’t drug test them, most are probably guilty. Waste of time to discuss this perverted, woke bunch of lying cheats. I really couldn’t care less.
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