Yeah you do have to worry whether she is being taken advantage of in someway by the Chinese coaches, and being forced to overtrain.
Clearly those performances are wildly impressive, but my 2 caveats.
China has a long history of falsifying ages of swimmers, although those performances for a swimmer several years older than 11 would still be crazy.
Genetically, younger Chinese females have excellent swimming Physiques, being very tall and thin As they develop they grow wider and lose some of that benefical body shape.
There have been many younger Chinese swimmers in the past who have put in draw dropping times and then faded in obscurity.
Despite this, her performances and her depth are remarkable and she could be a generational talent, but we can’t jump on the bandwagon yet.
Dame Lisa Marie Carrington for sure mopped the floor with Shtyl, having 23 combined golds from Olympics + WChs (8+15), while Shtyl has only one medal from the Olympics and it's not gold.
Not saying she’s doping or anything, but the time is so incredible (it’s good even for 17-18 year olds) that I begin to wonder what the Chinese coaches are putting her through during training.
I mean, she raced in 10 events at the Chinese Olympic Trials… even Phelps at Beijing 2008 didn’t have a schedule that big…
Either way to me it’s hard to see her performing at the highest level beyond her 20s.
World championships were supposed to start tomorrow in Andorra, but it looks like the shorttrack qualifiers that were scheduled for tomorrow have all been cancelled or something? First action is now on Wednesday with downhill qualifying.
Maria Sakkari with another R1 loss in Grand Slam. This time she retired injured after the first set. I don't remember a Top 10 player losing so many R1 matches in Grand Slam tbh.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCbaQ0OwnXuRaSyhQYZQC40ztNu3WWBA
I made an Playlist for the 1992 Olympic games with the videos that are on youtube, is not 100 percent upgrade with the spreedsheet but im updating ASAP.
the events are in day and hour order.
i already got a lot of events from 1992 so i think i will go to 1980 which is my another favorite, but if you guys want to send a video from any olympics feel free and just follow the rules above.
thanks =)
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