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Ye's performance compared to the best men for that leg was maybe not that impressive," he says. Tucker points out that Rebecca Adlington swam faster than both Lochte and Ye in the final leg of the m freestyle at the world championships last year. He does confirm, however, that Ye Shiwen's performance was exceptional. There is another measure one can look at which suggests the race was unusual. Reza Noubary, a maths professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, has applied "threshold theory" to world records in the past.

He takes the previous best performances and the amount of time that elapses between them and establishes what records are possible. She did it So in that sense you may call that exceptional.

Ye Shiwen is extraordinary but sometimes we get extraordinary athletes. Bolt's record stands at 9. There is a cloud that has hung over Chinese swimming ever since 32 of their swimmers tested positive in the s. And only seven months ago, another teenage swimmer tested positive for the drug EPO. But none of that means we should doubt Ye Shiwen's integrity, and there is certainly no statistical smoking gun.

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The distraught South Korean eventually had to be escorted away. She ranks third in the nation this year in both IMs and the m breaststroke. In diving, China won every individual gold medal at the most recent Olympics and world championships.

In Tokyo, China will again try to win every Olympic diving gold medal for the first time. It won six or seven of the eight in , , and OlympicTalk is on Apple News.