Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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The Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe said this week that he beat his personal best by five seconds when he was a teenager.
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And also, if you take Ye's fellow swimmer in the 400 metres individual medley, that's the Australian Stephanie Rice, she beat her personal best in 2008 by six seconds when she set the world record in the Aussie Olympic trials.
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And no one shouted drug cheat at her.
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Now, the second issue is that she smashed the world record.
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She beat it by over a second.
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Yeah, let's take Stephanie Rice again.
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When she beat her world record, she beat it by a wider margin back in 2008.
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So, I mean, it's impressive, but it's not that remarkable.
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Yeah, this comparison with Lochte probably isn't that telling.
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It's not the first time that Lochte's been slower than a woman over the last leg of that type of race.
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In Beijing in 2008, when he got the bronze, he was slower than the Italian Alessia Filippi by more than half a second, and she only came fifth.
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No, no, absolutely not.
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I mean, he raced 23 seconds faster than Ye overall.
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I spoke to Dr. Ross Tucker from the Sports Science Institute at the University of Cape Town, and he says the comparison doesn't necessarily mean very much.
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And Rebecca Adlington was, of course, the British 400 and 800 metre gold medalist from Beijing and swam faster than both Lochte and Yeshuan in the final leg of her 800 metre race at the World Championships last year.
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Well, there are a couple of things that stick out.
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Now, Ross Tucker had this observation.
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OK, so in that sense, it was an exceptional performance.
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Yes, and there's another measure you can look at as well.
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Reza Nubri is a maths professor at Bloomsbury University in Pennsylvania in the USA.
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