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"I think any sport that has had an icon come from it is always searching for the next Michael
Jordan or the next Michael Phelps for that matter. It could be a long time in coming.
It is human nature to want to know who is going to be the next star that we can follow
and who is going to be the next inspiration for those in the sport of swimming or whatever
the sport may be."
"Well they (China) have had great swimming champions from China in the past - especially
the women. They did really well actually just in the past Olympic games in London (2012).
So, those countries are emerging again. It is sort of the ebbs and the flows and that
happens all over the world. It is not...America doesn't dominate or Australia doesn't dominate
swimming like it did in the 60's and 70's."
"Certainly the performance stands on its own merits. World record swims and she drops her
time by seconds from one year to the next. Obviously that might lead to suspicion. She
was tested by the IOC (international Olympic Commission) and was found to be drug free
- but with that being said we have to look at 'is the IOC testing for every drug that
is performance enhancing drug out there? And the answer is, of course they are not and
we know as a fact that a lot of the performance enhancing drugs that they test for on that
list are old school. That they haven't been taken by the elite athletes for years. So,
by design you have to say to yourself 'is it designed to let those fall through the
cracks and not be found?' That is the speculation that needs to be examined and not her in particular
- but that actual system within itself."