看看澳洲人怎么看罗雪娟的胜利的(转载)

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Nothing to say but well done, my good China
　　By Richard Hinds
　　August 19, 2004
　　
　　Something nice happened at these Olympics on Monday night. No, they didn’t call off the trampolining or confiscate Laurie Lawrence’s all-access pass. One of those strapping Chinese swimmers with a funny name beat two Aussie heroes in the 100m breaststroke in a fast time and nobody wearing a green and gold tracksuit cried foul.
　　
　　Not loudly, anyway. Given it is only six years since the Chinese swimming team was chased out of Australia before the world championships in Perth amid suspicions the strange concoction in their luggage was not some sort of oriental version of Vegemite, no doubt a few muttered darkly under their breath. Just out of sheer habit. But rather than play the theme from Jaws as she emerged from the pool or point accusingly at her broad shoulders as Australian news services used to do, the general reaction to Xuejuan Luo becoming the first Chinese swimming gold medallist in eight years was a mildly indifferent “well done“.
　　
　　You would like to think that the response was because Australian knees now jerk less violently about foreign athletes. Chastened by the fact that the sharpest thing in the cycling team’s bedrooms was not Sean Eadie’s wit, you would hope we are now not too quick to point the finger of suspicion. The fact that our own female swimmers have been churning up and down the pool like Michael Schumacher on a jet ski might also alert us to the fact that - and you cross yourself before writing this - great things are possible without chemical enhancement.
　　
　　But perhaps the real reason that a Chinese swimmer can win in world record time without being cast as a kitten-strangling, medal-thieving cheat is that, if the IOC is not winning the war against performance-enhancing drugs, the battle is at least being waged with bazookas instead of pea shooters.
　　
　　The man to thank for creating that impression is the president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge. Before the Olympics, Rogge made the appealing point that he did not care if the 100m was run in about the same time as the marathon, as long as it was clean.
　　
　　It was a refreshing statement from a man heading an organisation that, during the Samaranch era, seemed hopelessly compromised on this, and just about every other issue.
　　
　　So, bizarrely, we now await the results of strength and endurance sports in the hope the performances will not be too good. That weightlifters will struggle to pick up their training bags, let alone a metal laden bar. That cyclists will be so exhausted after their rides they could not complete a paper round.
　　
　　At these Olympics, the motto should be: Slower, Lower, Weaker.
　　
　　Which is not to suggest that these are the Clean Games and no one is on anything more performance enhancing than a Bex. The BALCO case has demonstrated that the manufacture, distribution and application of banned drugs is at a level far more sophisticated than in the days when the East German swimmers were so broad they were in danger of being wedged between the lane ropes.
　　
　　Yet, rather than destroy belief in Olympics events, testimony by disgraced shot-putter CJ Hunter that he injected his former wife Marion Jones with illegal substances in Sydney, and even the conjecture about the Australian cycling team, has had an unexpected benefit in Athens. Rather than being yet another exposition of the wares of top-notch pharmaceutical companies, exposing the extent of the drug problem - and some prominent beneficiaries - has given this souped-up school sports carnival newfound credibility.
　　
　　As heartbreaking as it has been for Greeks, the scandal surrounding sprinter Kostas Kederis has helped with that cleansing. If, as suspected, he was deliberately avoiding a drugs test, then the safeguards have worked. And, as an added benefit, he has been denied the grand honour of lighting the Olympic flame.
　　
　　Now we wait and hope that the winner of the javelin barely throws the spear out of his own shadow. That there is enough time during the running of the 400m to scoff a souvlaki and a beer. That the performances are of such a human scale that they might even be just that.

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<>xuejuan luo is so great!</P><>even foreign comments are in her favor</P>