Tuesday, July 31, 2012

16 year old Chinese Swimmer's test come back clean.




It was her final 100m of freestyle, in which she recorded a split time of 58.68sec, that aroused Leonard’s suspicion. Over the last 50m she was quicker than the American Ryan Lochte, who won the men’s 400m individual medley in the second-fastest time in history.

John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, has been the most vocal about Shiwen’s shady performance.

“Any time someone has looked like superwoman in the history of our sport they have later been found guilty of doping.”
In respons to the speculation it appears a rush was put on Ye Shiwen's test to end the controversy.


British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan said: "We know how on top of the game Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency) are and Wada have passed her as clean. That's the end of the story.

What do you think? Is she juicing?

You have read the full story here:http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/07/31/ye-shiwen-16-year-old-swimming-gold-medalist-is-embroiled-in-a-doping-controversy/

And here: http://news.sky.com/story/967067/drugs-body-chinese-swim-medallist-is-clean

NBC Spoils Miss Franklin's big win





NBC was set to air Missy Franklin’s gold medal performance in the 100m backstroke after one last commercial break. A commercial break that contained a promo for interview with gold medal winning swimmer Missy Franklin on Tuesday’s edition of the Today Show. And just like that, anyone who didn’t know that Missy Franklin had won, now did.

Today's Olympic schedule

13:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Fencing: MEN - Individual Foil: semi-finals, bronze medal match, gold medal match, victory ceremony

13:20 PM to 4:00 PM - Water Polo: MEN - Preliminaries (2 matches)

13:30 PM to 6:00 PM - Badminton: MEN+WOMEN - Singles, Doubles: preliminaries. Mixed Doubles: preliminaries

14:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Weightlifting: MEN - 69kg: group A, victory ceremony

14:00 PM to 5:45 PM - Hockey: WOMEN - Preliminaries (2 matches)

14:30 PM to 4:20 PM - Swimming: MEN - 100m Freestyle: semi-finals. 200m Breaststroke: semi-finals. 200m Butterfly: final, victory ceremony. 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay: final, victory ceremony. WOMEN - 200m Butterfly: semi-finals. 200m Freestyle: final, victory ceremony. 200m Individual Medley: final, victory ceremony

14:30 PM to 5:45 PM - Handball: Men's preliminaries (2 matches)

14:45 PM to 4:45 PM - Soccer: WOMEN - Preliminaries (1 match)

14:45 PM to 4:45 PM - Soccer: WOMEN - Preliminaries (1 match)

15:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Basketball: MEN - Preliminaries (2 games)

15:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Table Tennis: MEN -Singles: quarter-finals

15:00 PM to 6:30 PM - Volleyball: Men's preliminaries (2 matches)

15:00 PM to 6:50 PM - Beach Volleyball: MEN+WOMEN - Preliminaries (4 matches)





The Hobbit will be a Trilogy



The move had been rumored last week, but the "Lord of the Rings" auteur confirmed the trilogy, saying that there was more story to tell than could be contained in the originally planned two films. He said the movies will draw on related material in the appendices of "The Lord of the Rings," in addition to using J.R.R. Tolkien's original story.


Full story here