I feel more relaxed and confident in myself now. The pool is like a playground for me. I have a lot of fun in the water. I want to show my best at the Tokyo Olympic Games. I am curious how far I can get in the pool.
It is like a riddle waiting for me to open. Do you think you are in the second prime time of your career? I was at a low ebb bit I did not give up. I just tried to train as usual. I was thrilled with my performance in Gwangju and it has boosted my confidence in swimming.
I had not won anything at the Worlds since I collected my first world title at the Shanghai Worlds. It was a long-awaited self-affirmation for me. I have no idea how the other girl swimmers deal with the growing troubles and with the increasing weight and height. You had superb freestyle splits in your medley races in the Olympic Games.
Why did you change to breaststroke at the Worlds? Freestyle is always my favourite, but breaststroke was my first and previous favourite when I was young. I had fun in breaststroke when I returned to the pool two years ago because I was not under pressure in this stroke. I thought maybe I could expand to a new battlefield since it is very difficult to train four strokes all the time in training. My coach also suggested I should take this challenge. A fourth place in m breaststroke in Gwangju was a surprise for me.
I felt relaxed to swim breaststroke and any progress sin that would give me a surprise. Your first national and Asian championship titles were captured in What is your biggest change in the past 10 years?
From , the biggest change has been the growth of my mind-set. I can out aside the previous glory and start from zero. That was such intriguing fodder that when Lochte was in the mixed zone Sunday morning, he said Shiwen had been a topic of conversation the previous night.
And it was a female. She's fast. If she was there with me, I don't know, she might have beat me. Added U. You notice stuff like that You guys can do the research. I think that's probably the fastest women's split ever. By Sunday morning, most had noticed. The stunning final meters had multiple swim insiders privately questioning how Shiwen could have beaten Lochte in the last 50 meters or managed a virtual dead heat in the last Particularly in such a grueling race.
The buzz was so prevalent, SwimmingWorldMagazine. Not minutes after Chinese youngster Ye Shiwen captured the gold medal in the individual medley on the opening night of Olympic competition, accusations started to fly. You know the type.
She must be doping. Shiwen wasn't among the race favorites, yet she effectively peaked in the IM on the Olympic stage despite never having won the event in a long-course international event. We feel strongly that you overlooked some important facts. You join in the widespread speculation that Ye's performance was anomalous, in which it has generally been implied that no one else has accomplished such a feat before without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs — a premise that, in our view, stems from data cherry-picked to support an unfounded accusation.
You indicate that Ye's metre performance was about 7 seconds faster than a time she set at a major meet a year earlier. Ye's personal best was actually set in , when she was 14 years old.
She improved her performance at the Olympics final by 5s over her earlier personal best — a feat that is not anomalous, but is expected for elite swimmers of Ye's age as they grow bigger and stronger. There are many examples of elite swimmers who showed a significant improvement at a young age. For example, Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe took 5s off his metre freestyle time between the ages of 15 and 16, and UK swimmer Adrian Moorhouse, Seoul Olympics gold medallist in , improved by 4s in the metre breaststroke aged The same happened to the other seven finalists in the Olympics women's metre medley see 'Young swimmers' improvements'.
What you do not mention is that Ye was actually more than 23s slower over metres than Lochte, an eternity for elite swimmers at this distance. In fact, the time for Lochte's last 50 metres is nowhere near the second-fastest ever for that event: several other swimmers in the same men's final were faster than he was and faster than Ye.
Out of the pool, Ye appears to be no different from any bookish Chinese teen her age, listing her favourite pastimes as watching television and reading detective novels. But much of her time is spent in the water - she reportedly took only one day off from training after her win at the World Championships. Mr Wood, who runs a swimming academy in Brisbane where many of the Chinese swimmers train, told reporters that one of the factors contributing to Ye's speed in the last 50m of her winning swim was her good ''power-to-weight ratio''.
He also painted a picture of the teenager's serious training regime in China. Ye's coach in China is ''very, very tough'' with her, he said, and he had had talks with Ye to ''have a joke and smile''.
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