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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Yes, and Lochte also had three races the next day, so he probably had a reason to kind of save a little bit of himself for those.
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And this is the problem we've got.
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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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He's applied something called threshold theory to world records in the past.
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Now, what he does is to take the previous best performances and the amount of time that elapses between them and establishes what records might be possible with a 90% confidence.
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Now, we gave him the data for the best times in the 400 metres individual medley before Yeshua
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Yes, and when Professor Nubri ran the data on the men's 100 metres before Usain Bolt first broke his record, he said that with 90% confidence that the next record wouldn't exceed 9.62 seconds.
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Of course, now we know that Bolt's record stands at 9.58 seconds.
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So you're right.
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We sometimes get extraordinary athletes.
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And this is why Ross Tucker says that while we should ask questions, we should be careful about what we assume from the performance.
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Yes.
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I mean, there's a cloud that's hung over Chinese swimming ever since 32 of their swimmers tested positive in the 1990s.
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And only seven months ago, another teenage swimmer tested positive for the drug EPO.
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