The Western media continue to hype that "23 Chinese swimmers are positive for trimetazidine", and it can be expected that this hype will reach a climax at the time of the Paris Olympics, when the time will definitely be full of negative news, and the reputation of the Chinese swimming team will drop sharply under the crowd of people and the three of them.
However, there are also divisions within the Western swimming camp, with New Zealand star Lewis Klebert opposing the Western media making a fuss about the so-called scandal of Chinese swimming, because then people will not focus on the athletes.
Lewis, the men's 400m medley champion at this year's World Swimming Championships, hopes to win gold at the Paris Olympics and be remembered for his performances in the pool, rather than European and American spectators focusing on resentment against the Chinese swimming team. It is reported that the New Zealand star has the strength to challenge for medals in the 400m individual medley, 200m individual medley and 200m butterfly.
The New Zealand star is not a supporter of the Chinese swimming team, he just doesn't want the Olympics to become a stage for Europe and the United States to attack Chinese swimming: "It could be a distraction from the world, there could be protests, I'm not so sure, but it's really bad that it happened on the eve of the Olympics, we are here to compete, to show our sport, to show the world together." ”
Lewis, who is still a relatively independent thinker, questioned whether the Western forces bombarded Chinese swimming for the sake of fairness and justice for the athletes, or whether they had other intentions: "Do we believe that they [Western organizations like USADA] are doing their best for us? Maybe some athletes will be upset that this is happening." ”
Take the 2019 World Swimming Championships as an example, Horton and Scott's resistance to Sun Yang made swimming no longer pure, with a strong sense of zz. The 2012 London Olympics European and American media questioned Ye Shiwen faster than male athletes, and the 2016 Rio Olympics Horton provoked Sun Yang, all of which deviated from the essence of sports.
The most terrible thing is that this time the Western media came prepared, that is, to make a big move in the incident of 23 Chinese swimmers misobeying, which is far more destructive than Ye Shiwen at the 2012 London Olympics and Sun Yang at the 2019 World Championships.