From the Associated Press
"SHANGHAI -- Ye Shiwen of China powered home on the final freestyle leg to win the women's 200-meter individual medley at the world swimming championships.
Ye overtook world record holder Ariana Kukors of the United States, who led at the halfway mark, to finish in 2 minutes, 08.90 seconds on Monday. Alicia Coutts of Australia won her second silver medal of the night in 2:09.00, and Kukors took the bronze in a time of 2:09.12.
Olympic champion Stephanie Rice of Australia never led and finished fourth. She finished second to Kukors in Rome in 2009."
"We warned you to look out for China’s Shiwen Ye. When she made the final turn in 5th, behind the world-class group of Kukors, Coutts, and Rice, you probably wrote this off as a three-swimmer race, didn’t you. But while those three battled it out on the left-side of the pool, Ye reminded them all that she’s not only the best closer in this field, but probably the best closer that this race has EVER seen. She came from out of nowhere, on a 29.42 anchor, to win the 200 IM in 2:08.90. That makes her the first woman under 2:09 in textile, and breaks her own textile-best by over four-tenths of a second. In future years, when other swimmers are chasing textile-best splits in this 200 IM, it will have to be considered that though a swimmer might be ahead of the pace through 150 meeters, it will be hard for them to close as fast as Ye just did.
Australia's Alicia Coutts continued a great meet with her 2nd silver medal of the night in 2:09.00. She and bronze-medalist Ariana Kukors of the US (2:09.12) were also under the old textile-best. Like so many other Americans, Kukors relied on the "5th stroke" – the underwater – to carry her to a comfortable lead through the breaststroke, but a hesitant final turn allowed Coutts just the opening she needed to sneak past Kukors.
Coming up in 4th is defending Olympic Champion Stephanie Rice in 2:09.65. But have no fear rice fans: in 2007, the year before her triple-gold haul in Beijing, Rice was even further (1.3 seconds) back of the champion Katie Hoff, and that didn't seem to be a problem at all for her the following summer."
We are still awaiting the first medal from shinning, mighty, rising, Bollywood Cricket world champion and now world champion weapons importer, India, which is so often pitched against China in everything by the US. With 1 Billion younger people, India should easily find world class swimmers. Swimming is also a good measure of development index as it denotes a country's infrastructural capacity, health, hygiene etc. Except if there is still no swimming pool in Shinning India except of course in Bollywood films whereby all Indians have at least one olympic swimming pool in their villa. Or else perhaps Indians are afraid to go into water given that their skin bleaching and whitening cream would dilute and they are not use to water and they do not know that water is also used for cleaning the body and for maintaining basic corporal hygiene.
"SHANGHAI -- Ye Shiwen of China powered home on the final freestyle leg to win the women's 200-meter individual medley at the world swimming championships.
Ye overtook world record holder Ariana Kukors of the United States, who led at the halfway mark, to finish in 2 minutes, 08.90 seconds on Monday. Alicia Coutts of Australia won her second silver medal of the night in 2:09.00, and Kukors took the bronze in a time of 2:09.12.
Olympic champion Stephanie Rice of Australia never led and finished fourth. She finished second to Kukors in Rome in 2009."
"We warned you to look out for China’s Shiwen Ye. When she made the final turn in 5th, behind the world-class group of Kukors, Coutts, and Rice, you probably wrote this off as a three-swimmer race, didn’t you. But while those three battled it out on the left-side of the pool, Ye reminded them all that she’s not only the best closer in this field, but probably the best closer that this race has EVER seen. She came from out of nowhere, on a 29.42 anchor, to win the 200 IM in 2:08.90. That makes her the first woman under 2:09 in textile, and breaks her own textile-best by over four-tenths of a second. In future years, when other swimmers are chasing textile-best splits in this 200 IM, it will have to be considered that though a swimmer might be ahead of the pace through 150 meeters, it will be hard for them to close as fast as Ye just did.
Australia's Alicia Coutts continued a great meet with her 2nd silver medal of the night in 2:09.00. She and bronze-medalist Ariana Kukors of the US (2:09.12) were also under the old textile-best. Like so many other Americans, Kukors relied on the "5th stroke" – the underwater – to carry her to a comfortable lead through the breaststroke, but a hesitant final turn allowed Coutts just the opening she needed to sneak past Kukors.
Coming up in 4th is defending Olympic Champion Stephanie Rice in 2:09.65. But have no fear rice fans: in 2007, the year before her triple-gold haul in Beijing, Rice was even further (1.3 seconds) back of the champion Katie Hoff, and that didn't seem to be a problem at all for her the following summer."
We are still awaiting the first medal from shinning, mighty, rising, Bollywood Cricket world champion and now world champion weapons importer, India, which is so often pitched against China in everything by the US. With 1 Billion younger people, India should easily find world class swimmers. Swimming is also a good measure of development index as it denotes a country's infrastructural capacity, health, hygiene etc. Except if there is still no swimming pool in Shinning India except of course in Bollywood films whereby all Indians have at least one olympic swimming pool in their villa. Or else perhaps Indians are afraid to go into water given that their skin bleaching and whitening cream would dilute and they are not use to water and they do not know that water is also used for cleaning the body and for maintaining basic corporal hygiene.
