Pan Zhanle broke silence on Australian coach's "not humanly possible" comment.

[u/Li_Jingjing]

[u/Soviet-pirate]

But Phelps is somehow natural and good because,reasons. Get that Anglo clown out of my face.

[u/exoriare → u/Soviet-pirate]

Phelps has several bizarre genetic traits. The width of his outstretched arms is wider than his height. This is extremely rare. He also has genetic problems with his heart. While this helps him swim faster, he probably won't live a long life. 

If we continue on with this current approach, in fifty years the Olympics will be won by swimmers who have gills and flippers due to mutation. It feels like this is the opposite of what the Olympic spirit should be. (But I suppose the Olympics are broken in many other ways too). 

I would love it if BRICS or some other international body created a less corrupt version of the Olympics - one where politics is less a factor, and one where it's more integrated into a celebration of a healthy life and sports rather than this festival of corruption. 

[u/Unlikely_Position242 → u/exoriare]

There is a brics games I believe

[u/exoriare → u/Unlikely_Position242]

Hopefully it can get to the point where the non-NATO world can decline participating in the Olympics en masse.

I doubt they would even have to go through with such a move: the threat alone might be enough to force some deep reforms on the IOC and end the political gamemanship.

[u/sktvini → u/Unlikely_Position242]

It's called tretris.

[u/rottenbanana999 → u/exoriare]

A positive ape index is not extremely rare. It is common.

[u/DestinyMlGBro → u/exoriare]

Did you mean his wingspan being longer than his height?

[u/exoriare → u/DestinyMlGBro]

I wasn't sure if wingspan was widely understood in this context. Or "armspan"?

[u/DestinyMlGBro → u/exoriare]

err I think it is? at least from my experience talking about Basketball they refer to it as Wingspan.

[u/exoriare → u/DestinyMlGBro]

Oh, that explains it - I know nothing about basketball except there's a ball, and at least one basket.

[u/KyotoKute]

Missed an opportunity to reply with "my time would've been even better if I had asthma".

[u/crescentpieris]

Unfathomably based

[u/[deleted]]

İll be more clear for Anglos who loves cheating so much : COPE

[u/King-Sassafrass → u/[deleted]]

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[u/bransby26]

Typical westoid racism. A Chinese person couldn't possibly beat the superior white man, so they must be cheating.

[u/Kyonkanno → u/bransby26]

more like "we know for a fact that we're cheating, therefore, if he beat us he is definitely cheating!"

Every accusation is actually a confession

[u/Th3G0ldStandard → u/bransby26]

I genuinely think there’s an extra layer to it. A lot of Western swimmers are doping themselves and it’s an unspoken social norm among them. That’s why they feel extra bold about accusing Chinese swimmers for doping. In their minds it’s “I know we are doping, so if they beat us then they must be doping too”.

[u/grassytrams]

Go China 🇨🇳 keep showing the world what is possible

[u/Anton_Pannekoek]

He broke his own world record of 46.8 down to 46.4. It is really impressive, but I don't think it's in the realm of impossible.

[u/TheGreatMightyLeffe → u/Anton_Pannekoek]

Yeah, compared to that Swede/'Murican kid who broke the previous world record with 30cm, half a second isn't THAT questionable.

Also, considering how Pan came in 13th in the trials, if he'd been on a doping cycle before the Olympics, he would've crushed then as well. This is a clear case of a very talented athlete being smart and saving his strength for the finals and then giving it all.

[u/Bela9a]

Records are meant to be broken and stuff like this is really exiting in showing how much potential humans still have in doing these insane feats.

[u/Calm-Blueberry-9835]

The Westoid hatred of China stems from their jealousy.

[u/RegularNo7066]

Muricans used doping and lost to a Chinese who didn't use, they can't accept that they were defeated even when they played dirty. Murican moral is a joke LMAO

[u/Twarenotw]

The Australian coach released a 55 minute video with Nathan Adrian breaking down Pan Zhanle's performance.

[u/Chimpar]

I think it's a bit stretched based on the saying:" that is not humanly possible". It's a common saying and has probably no deeper thought to it.

[u/King-Sassafrass → u/Chimpar]

He’s saying he cheated at an international sports event. If he was exaggerating, he would’ve said “that’s crazy” or another term. But even then, he should just accept it and use the right words to congratulate him on his win