Chinese swimming world record ‘not humanly possible’ says Australian coach

Yahoo! ^ | August 01, 2024 | Staff

[oldtech]

And for reasons like this, I consider it a virtue to pay little attention to Olympic swimmers. It looks like determining a winner actually comes down only to those who can cheat the best. This is Not in the Olympic tradition. Enough of this kind of playing the games will probably result in a loss of recognition & eventually no one will pay any attention.

[imabadboy99]

sportsmanship no longer exists.

[TheDon]

Agreed. It happens.

[cgbg]

The athletes have learned from politicians all over the world.

Lying and cheating works—and most of the time they do not get caught.

[Democrat = party of treason]

Wow, the guy must be an alien then...

[Vaduz]

Check for gills under fake skin.

[RideForever]

Maybe the winner sprayed his body with the same coating our vegetables get that seals all pores, and reduces friction of the water against the swimmers’s skin ... ?

[Sequoyah101]

It is cultural, just like for democraps to cheat.

[JimRed]

Until proven otherwise, The Chinese swimmer is the new record holder, fair and square. Show me the cheat, and I’ll adjust my attitude.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It looks like determining a winner actually comes down only to those who can cheat the best. This is Not in the Olympic tradition. Enough of this kind of playing the games will probably result in a loss of recognition & eventually no one will pay any attention.

Exactly like a certain US President...

[mmichaels1970]

They don’t drug test them?

They do. And there are groups and even nations like Russia and China that dedicate resources to beat them. It’s an ever evolving game of measures and countermeasures.

[Hot Tabasco]

Considering all the drug tests he has endured, even before and after the race that have tested negative, I sincerely doubt he was doping.

The kid just swam his ass off. That's how records are broken and new ones set.......Congratulations to him.

[LS]

It may be doping.

However, a friend of mine who was deeply involved in hot rod/car racing at national championships told me something that surprised me. He said “We could have set the record any time we wanted to be we didn’t because we wanted to save some back for the championships.” In other words, they were sandbagging. I wonder if some of that isn’t going on here?

[discostu]

Everything was humanly impossible until it wasn’t. They believed the 4 minute mile would kill someone trying to do it, all the way up until somebody did it and didn’t.

What’s extra funny is that 2 days ago people were whining that it was a “slow pool” because the times were so slow. So much for that.

[discostu]

Sandbagging or eye on the prize. Holding records is nice, but you’re still in competition to win. I don’t think we ever really found out how fast Usain Bolt could go. He just went out and won, and yeah set the record a couple of times, but that always seemed to be more about him having to go that fast to win. He never seemed like he was really pushing to his outside capability.

[Red Badger]

Maybe he practiced swimming in a pool of molasses..............

[Antoninus]

eventually no one will pay any attention.

I stopped paying attention sometime around 1984. The Olympics have become a globo-homo propaganda fest.

[PLMerite]

“...100m freestyle world record...in 46.40 seconds...”

Sh!t, I’m grateful I don’t sink.

[bdfromlv]

they made fentanyl 50+ x more potent than morphine and a new 1 50x more powerful why not a new amphetamine

[minnesota_bound]

The Australian’s could win if they had a crocodile closing on them from behind...