Pan Zhanle just became the first Chinese swimmer to win gold in the 100 meters freestyle along with setting a new world record (46.40).
The Chinese commentators were quite excited! pic.twitter.com/7zP7MIrjx5
— Orikron 🇵🇹 (@orikron) July 31, 2024
Asians have always been known for using technique to improve things. Whites invented the engine, but the TURBO DIESEL was created by an Asian man.
It’s not really surprising that at the sports that accommodate the Asian physique, Asians would excel at maximizing training.
I don’t think we should be going around accusing them of not being humans.
China’s state media, athletes and netizens rallied to support Olympic swimming champion Pan Zhanle after critics including an Australian swim commentator said his world record swim in the 100 metres freestyle was not “humanly possible”.
Pan smashed his own 100 metres freestyle world record, shaving 0.40 seconds off the previous mark he set at the World Championships in Doha in February, to humble rivals including Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and Romania’s David Popovici.
The 19-year old Pan finished in 46.60 seconds to take China’s first swimming gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games. His win came after he “completed rigorous doping test programs prior to and during the games with zero positive results,” the China Daily said on Friday.
Pan said he took 21 doping tests from May to July prior to the games. “I cooperated with all the testing procedures and stayed confident that I am competing fair and clean,” he told the newspaper.
Australian coach and commentator Brett Hawke posted on his Instagram that “It’s not humanly possible to beat that field” and that the swim was “not real life. Not in that pool, against that field.”
If he’s on drugs then everyone is on drugs.
Most likely, everyone is on drugs.
The idea that Westerners are somehow morally above giving athletes drugs is belied by the entire history of Western competitive sports.
I’ve been saying this entire time that actually preventing drug use is impossible, it’s just a game that everyone plays to avoid getting caught.
Check out all the coping and seething from Brett Hawke about Pan Zhanle’s amazing world record 😁 @insidewithBH pic.twitter.com/jSThbrE9VQ
— Theodora Fletcher (@TheoFletcher02) August 2, 2024
But of course, the entire Olympics is politicized and to an extent always has been.
Didn’t Tonya Harding murder a Russian communist? No, I think she actually attacked another American. Anyway, there was stuff with the USSR, and then the Jews, and so on.
But they actually forced the Russians out of the Olympics, only allowing their athletes to compete without a flag. Because of the Ukraine. Israel is somehow still allowed to compete under their own flag of terror and doom.
The IOC says they’re neutral in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
But somehow, they’re not neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Frankly, I don’t even think the most extreme leftists would try to claim that the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is morally worse than the ongoing Israeli slaughter in Palestine. But that is the claim being made by the IOC.
So, yes.
Of course they’re going to accuse the Chinese of not being humans.