In reference to the girl power thing, they were only talking about Shiwen outswimming Lochte in a 50m interval and getting close to his time in a 100m interval (the freestyle portions) in a 400m race. In the overall race, Lochte's time was half a minute ahead of Shiwen's and every male posted a better time than her in all of the heats. There were also questions about Lochte not having to go all-out with a big lead.
Still, that's really impressive for her to do that even for a short period of time. It really makes me wonder why she isn't participating in the freestyle events. Putting aside the fact that she's 16, her ability in all of the other swimming styles in the medley outside of the freestyle aren't that impressive. The amount of time she makes up in the freestyle is absolutely remarkable and I can't help but think she'd be smashing world records if she was in the freestyle-specific events.
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