Wesley Stevenson

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More or Less · How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? · 3 Aug 2012 podcast

Yeah. voice-verified

Yes, she did. voice-verified

But you've got to remember, Yeshuan is very young, so you'd expect some dramatic improvements. voice-verified

The Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe said this week that he beat his personal best by five seconds when he was a teenager. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

And no one shouted drug cheat at her. voice-verified

Ye's still growing. voice-verified

I mean, she's 12 centimetres taller than she was two years ago when she was 14. voice-verified

And so you'd expect her times to improve. voice-verified

Now, the second issue is that she smashed the world record. voice-verified

She beat it by over a second. voice-verified

Yeah, let's take Stephanie Rice again. voice-verified

When she beat her world record, she beat it by a wider margin back in 2008. voice-verified

So, I mean, it's impressive, but it's not that remarkable. voice-verified

Yeah, this comparison with Lochte probably isn't that telling. voice-verified

It's not the first time that Lochte's been slower than a woman over the last leg of that type of race. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

No, no, absolutely not. voice-verified

I mean, he raced 23 seconds faster than Ye overall. voice-verified

He just paced himself very differently. voice-verified

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