Olympic games 2012 chinese swimmer

After winning the meter freestyle swim in her peer group at the Zhejiang Province Games in at the age of 10, her coach predicted Ye would be an Olympic champion. Ye joined the Zhejiang provincial swimming team in and China's national team the year after. Ye arrived on the world stage in at the age of 14, winning a pair of gold medals at the Asian Games and two silvers at the World Swimming Championships in Dubai.

On her Olympic profile, Ye's most memorable sporting achievement is listed as "winning the m and m individual medley at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. View: Best hi res photos of London Olympics. But it wasn't until world champion Li Zhesi was banned in June for a positive drug test that Ye rose to the forefront of the Chinese swimming team.

Ye won gold in the meter individual medley at the World Aquatic Championships in Shanghai, but finished outside the top three in the meter individual medley.

Just one year later, Ye swam the race more than a second faster than any woman in history. Ye has attributed her success to her training schedule and hard work. But practicing hard and destroying the meter medley record by storming through the final 50 meters faster than anyone else, man or woman, are two very different things, and Ye's golden performance quickly raised suspicions of drug doping from Leonard , one of the most respected names in the sport of swimming.

South African sport scientist Ross Tucker expressed concern on his Science of Sport blog about the vast difference between the relatively average times Ye swam in the first three legs of the meter race and her faster swim through the final meters. British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan joined China's anti-doping chief in defending Ye, saying Olympic drug testing was "on top of the game.

That's the end of the story," he told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. Ye has denied doping allegations, saying, "My achievements derive from diligence and hard work, I will never use drugs. State news agency Xinhua reported that Chinese officials had ordered Yu, her teammate and the head of their Olympic badminton team to publicly apologise.

Yu took gold in the women's doubles at the Beijing Olympics in with another partner. Yu and her teammate Wang Xiaoli were disqualified by badminton's governing body on Wednesday, along with two South Korean pairs and an Indonesian duo for behaving "in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport".

The round-robin arrangements gave players an interest in losing so that they could face easier contests at the elimination stage. Spectators booed them off the court, enraged by the farcical matches in which players deliberately served into the net, hit shots wide and missed easy returns.

Xinhua quoted an unnamed spokesman as saying: "The [Chinese] delegation has already severely criticised and educated the responsible badminton leaders, team and relevant players and demanded they profoundly recognise the seriousness and the harmfulness of this matter, reflect deeply on it, publicly apologise and resolutely prevent such incidents from happening again. Li Yongbo, chief coach of the Chinese badminton team, said his players' behaviour reflected the shortcomings of the new rules but said that was no excuse.

The international governing body for the sport has already apologised. Lund said it took the problem very seriously, but claimed that overall the group stages had been "a tremendous success".

He dismissed the widespread criticism that officials should have predicted the fiasco when they adopted the new format as hindsight. Several people, including BWF employees, have said concerns about the format had been raised long before the Games. The British badminton player Gail Emms, who won silver in the mixed doubles at the Games, said: "As soon as I heard about the group stage six or seven months ago, I went: 'That's going to see people trying to fix the draw.

They just wanted to be medallists for their country. It's a tactic. Leonard rejected comparisons to Michael Phelps, who broke the m butterfly world record when he was just 15, back in because the American got "consistently faster every year on a normal improvement curve".

He said he had no qualms about the performance of other Chinese swimmers, including the new Olympic m freestyle champion Sun Yang, But a woman does not out-swim the fastest man in the world in the back quarter of a m IM that is otherwise quite ordinary. It just doesn't happen. Blood samples taken at these Games will be kept for eight years. And over eight years, if there is something unusual going on in terms of genetic manipulation or something else, I would suspect over eight years' science will move fast enough to catch it.

I have every faith that eventually if there is something there to be caught it will be caught. Right now all we can say is Olympic champion, world record holder, and watch out for history. You ask me specifically about this particular swimming. I say no, I have not personally any reason other than to applaud what has happened, until I have further facts, if so. Ljungqvist added that he was unaware of which athletes had been tested in the build-up to the Games.

He described the IOC's mandate as "limited" because its testing programme only covers the period from when the athlete's village opens. Ljungqvist said that sudden advances in performance could bring athletes under closer scrutiny but said "sport is in danger" if surprise performances automatically provoke suspicion. Of course should a sudden rise in performance occur in a particular person, we could regard that possibly as a reason to do it, but I would rather say that it is tragic if that should be the primary reason for doing a testing.

With athletes willing to cheat caught in an ongoing arms race with anti-doping authorities employing ever more sophisticated means to catch them, they continue to be caught doping. IOC president, Jacques Rogge, in his opening press conference, said the fact that doping cheats were being caught and banned was a positive sign and said the fact samples would be held for up to eight years was a major deterrent. Three athletes have been sent home for doping offences since the Games began.

In all, in total, athletes were caught positive in the two months preceding the Olympic Games," he said. We will be testing, of course, during the competition, but I will say that this is proof that the system works, that the system is effective and that the system is a deterrent one.

Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, said anyone doping at the Games would be caught. They are outstanding athletes, but we need to remember that this is the most heavily policed Olympics ever in terms of doping," he said.