So is the modern era of sport only concerned with making assumptions 1. every moment of greatness is deemed by cheaters? What is wrong with us these days? We don't seem willing to accept greatness for what it is anymore. Yes China's history has hurt them in the past but 2. why use & bring up the past just because they do something special? It irks me 3. most westerners think that way all the time. As a born and bred Asian person myself I don't stand for the assumptions made about us one bit because its unfair judgement and she deserves credit where credit's due and until anything else proves wrong those 'critics' should shut it and go suck on their own losses!
1. Not every moment, just this one very suspect moment where a slip of a 16 year old girl swam a final leg faster than an elite male swimmer who in turn beat the greatest swimmer of all time.
2. The past, particularly with unrepentant repeat offenders, is an excellent predictor of future behaviour. That's why its brought up. That and Occam's Razor. You tell me what the simplest explanation is for Ye's inexplicable feats of power and endurance.
3. Most Westerners think that way hey. Who's making racial generalisations now then? Hypocrite. The difference is - no-one here is making any generalisations about Asians, they are making informed and educated guesses at specific conduct by a specific group of athletes and administrators from one particular country in one particular sport. And they have a good, objective and reasonable basis for the speculation.
I'll watch with interest a few things - how seriously the IOC actually look into the swim and the athlete and the squad, how much they are intimidated by the Chinese playing the race card and flexing their influence muscles, how Ye continues to perform now that the spotlight is on her with suspicion of doping making it even more difficult to dodge the killer bullet test, how open the Chinese are in terms of co-operation etc, and what happens in the future as current samples get tested with better and more targeted tests looking at things the testing bodies don't know about yet but which will come to light in due time.
