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Foreign media are angry and corrupted by the performance of the Chinese swimming team. Chinese swimming has been excellent in domestic competitions, especially Wang Shun breaking the Asian record in the men's 200m medley and Pan Zhanle breaking the Asian record in the men's 100m freestyle to win gold. These results also won gold at this year's World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
However, European and American public opinion is full of doubts and criticism, suggesting that there may be problems with swimming in China, although they cannot provide any evidence, it is only pure malicious speculation.
Craig Lord, a British swimmer known for shelling Chinese swimming superstar Sun Yang, once again jumped out to satirize the Chinese swimming team. "Wang Shun (200 min 1:54.62) and Pan Zhanle (100 from 46.97) set Asian records at home, and Olympic 200m medley champion Wang Shun from China was eliminated in the semifinals of the World Championships in July," he wrote. In China's troubled history of swimming, it's not uncommon for Chinese teams to target the Asian Games and even the domestic National Games as the most important global event of the year. ”
Lord further quipped that Wang Shun's performance in domestic waters was far beyond his best results in international competitions this season. He won comfortably at the Hangzhou Asian Games with a time of 1:54.62, making him the fourth person to break the 1:55 mark after America's Michael Phelps (2007), Ryan Rochett (2009) and Marchand (2023).
Lord particularly stressed that Wang Shun did not reach the final at this year's World Championships: in the heats, he narrowly reached the semifinals with a time of 1:59.05, finishing 16th and last. In the semifinals, he improved to 1:57.97, but that put him in 11th overall and 0.74 seconds away from the final threshold. Last year's World Championships Wang Shun also advanced to the preliminary round, and the semifinals fell to Sun Shan.
Lord went on to discredit Wang, especially questioning his performance in the final 50m freestyle sprint. He thinks Wang's freestyle speed is a bit mysterious, especially since he set the fastest ever final 50 meters at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 27.37 seconds, while his final 50 meters at the Hangzhou Asian Games was 27.68 seconds, although it was also fast.
Lord even cited the world record in the 200-meter medley as a 1:54.00 held by American Roschert, while his final 50-meter freestyle speed was 27.49 seconds. Lord firmly believes that Wang Shun's freestyle is better than Rochette, which he finds unacceptable.
Lord's remarks reflected the idea of white superiority, and he narrowly believed that Wang Shun's performance surpassed the best white people, so he thought there must be a problem. He also mentioned Poon, but was relatively restrained in this regard, only mentioning that Pan was the third fastest male 100m freestyler in history.
As for Zhang Yufei, Lord has maintained relative neutrality, after all, Zhang Yufei has maintained a world-class standard for a long time and is one of the most recognized Chinese swimmers in Europe and the United States. He pointed out that Zhang Yufei broke Jiao Liuyang's 13-year-old record for the games, but also pointed out that it was far from Liu Zige's world record of 2:01.81 at the 2009 National Games.
These remarks show that the outside world is full of doubts and criticism about the performance of the Chinese swimming team, but there is a lack of conclusive evidence to support their view.
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