Swimming: China’s missing children
From the Times: The plot is as horrifying as it is simple. One hundred of China’s most talented junior swimmers are gathered together for a test day in Beijing in late 2001 after the city won the...
View ArticleU.S. Coach Is Suspicious Of China’s Swim Program – Amy Shipley
From The Washington Post: Shortly before the U.S. team concluded one of its most successful swimming world championships in history, U.S. men’s team coach Dave Salo expressed surprise that China was...
View ArticleChina Says Decision to Ban Swimmer a Sign of Resolve Against Doping
The Canadian Press is reporting that the China Anti-Doping Agency’s lifetime ban of swimmer Ouyang Kunpeng and his coach, Feng Shangbao, was done to set an example: China’s decision to ban one of its...
View ArticleA Fresh Face, and Questions, in the Pool for China
The New York Times looks at the surprise gold in women’s swimming won by newcomer Liu Zige: Who was this 19-year-old swimmer who had never competed in an international meet before? How had she shaved...
View ArticleDoping Accusations Dog Chinese Swim Champion
With the London Olympics underway, the first doping scandal of the games seems to have hit and it involves 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen. Ye won a gold on Saturday after making record time in...
View ArticleOlympic Association Says Ye Shiwen is “Clean”
Following veiled accusations from U.S. swim coach John Leonard that Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen had used illicit performance-enhacing drugs to win her record-breaking gold medal on Saturday, many in the...
View ArticleAt Beidaihe, A Swim Test for China’s Leaders
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish explores Chinese President Hu Jintao’s aversion to swimming, which leaders such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping once utilized to demonstrate their health and strength...
View ArticleBack in the Swim
The Financial Times profiles 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen, who won gold at the London Olympics amid widespread, but unproven, accusations of doping: The responses and statements of Chinese...
View ArticleFlawed Flags and Dueling Swimmers Make Waves
China’s early medals at the Rio Olympics have been overshadowed by a series of issues, including this vexillological vexation: #CHN delegation asks Rio Olympic Committee to look into flawed Chinese...
View ArticleStar Swimmer Suggests Shift in China’s Olympic Attitudes
Dubbed the “mystic energy girl” by online fans, 20-year-old Olympic swimmer and bronze medallist Fu Yuanhui has become an internet sensation in China and beyond after her hilariously animated post-swim...
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