john leonard, the director of the world's swimming coaches calls the win disturbing and unbelievable. i would suspect, jaime, that the chinese have a far different view of this man the americans do. >> reporter: they do. they don't see the point. they think it's unjustified accusations or insignuationinsi. they say she has been swimming since she was 6, and has since been improving her time over the years. in fact, i talked with the editor of the "sports illustrated" china, and he told me that they have been tracking her career since at least two years ago. in fact, they put her on their cover two years ago when she won the asian games championship. last year she also landed at the top in the world aquatics championship. so they say that we should not be shocked or surprised, that she's done so well in the olympics. they also ask, why is it that when stars like michael phelps or some other swimming sensation two so well, it's fabulous news. but if a chinese do it, it's cheating. so they don't think it's fair, and they say that this is just sour grapes. >> well, the thing is that swimm

. >>> we did ask john leonard, the executive director of the world swimming coaches association to come on and clarify his comments. he refused saying that's all he's going to say on the matter. >>> a swiss soccer player is kicked off his olympic team after what he posted on twitter. he wrote, quote, i am going to batter the koreans, burn them all, bunch of tresos. that is french slang for describing people with down's syndrome. that's him, number 17, in the photo. he has since apologized. he is the second olympic athlete to be kicked out of the games for offensive tweets. >>> and nbc is again under controversy. just before american swimmer missy franklin swam for the gold a "today show" promo aired in primetime. >> when you're 17 years old and win your first gold medal, that's nobody you'd rather share it with. we're there when missy franklin and her parents reunite. a "today" exclusive live from london, tomorrow. >> well, that promo aired about six minutes before nbc aired missy franklin's gold medal-winning performance. it is the latest in a tape delay controversy that just keeps gro

leonard told a british paper. and though the so-called "mandarin mermaid" passed her drug test saturday, parents of american swimmers are suspicious as well. >> if it's within the rules today, they might have to change the rules later when they found out what they did. >> reporter: in china, there is outrage over the allegations, and charges of racism. >> translator: i think the accusations are unfair. people may think asians are not as strong as americans or europeans. >> reporter: but biology tells us that women like ye can't be faster than her male peers over the long haul, because a man's heart pumps about 16% more blood per beat, his lungs hold up to 30% more oxygen, and longer legs mean stronger kicks. but when it comes to destroying other women, chinese officials point to her expensive training to explain her explosive times, and her physical growth. when she won the asian games at 14, she was just over 5'2." she's grown four inches since, and given her huge hands and feet, several former olympians say her

this is getting kind of ugly as this man, john leonard is the u.s. executive director of the world swimming coaches association calls it unbelievable, disturbing, wants an investigation into the chinese saying they could be using genetic manipulation, joey? >> she is a freak of nature. listen, there are a couple of things that concern me about this, megyn. the first are the facts. the second is the history. let's start with with the facts first. when you have a swimmer swimming five seconds better than her personal best, that beats the second place winner by three seconds, that outpaces the male winner, mr. lochte, by you know, i mean, in the last 50 meters of the race, it calls into question whether or not that is simply training. and i just want to be clear, in the event she is indeed won this on her own and merits i want to take nothing away but raises some skepticism. you match that, megyn with the history here. you look at 1994 in rome and issue that was had subsequently with the seven chinese swimmers there who were later found to be doping. yo

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john leonard the executive director of the world swimming coach's association said the following... however, there are defenders understandably so, the head of the chinese swimming team says the following... >> cenk: yeah, look, first of all, they make it sound like as if china had never had any issues and like oh, golly gee, i can't believe you would offend china like this. your swimming team, your female swimming team got caught with 13 vials of drugs in 1998. you had many different problems in the 1990s. look that doesn't mean these people are guilty. the ioc, to be fair to the chinese team is hinting she passed the drug test. but michael and ana, i can't believe it. beating a men's record? maybe i'm being anti-liberal here but i just -- i don't see it as possible. >> i think that there is a lot of confusion as to you know, how fast she swam because she did beat the world's record for women. however, she outpaced ryan lochte in the last leg of her medley. that doesn't mean she beat -- she's faster than every male swimmer out there. >> cenk: she didn't break the men's record. >> t

one of the most respected swim coaches in the business, american john leonard, was quoted every time we see something unbelievable, history shows us that it turns out there was doping involved. ye herself credited chinese training methods. it's an old argument. the london games have set up the most exhaustive drug testing program ever. all medal winners will be tested for 240 banned substances. but the dopers, if that's what they are, always seem a step ahead of the doping police. while controversy swirled around the pool, there was some american success in it. teenager missy franklin won gold in the 100 meter back stroke, and with her parents cheering from poolside, is looking like the future of u.s. swimming. >> just seeing my parents. i mean, it means the world to me they could be here. and i know that god has given me so much. for them to be here, and and them to watch and be with me and experience it, it's so special. >> reporter: it was an american one-two, with matthew grievers and nick fillman winning gold in the men's backstroke. but it was the bust in gymnastics where the u

one of the most respected swim coaches in the business, american john leonard, was quoted saying "every time we see something unbelievable, history shows us that it turns out there was doping involved." ye herself credited chinese training method. it's an old argument. the london games have set up the most exhaustive drug testing program ever. all will be tested for 240 banned substances, but the dopers, if that's what they are, always seem a step ahead of the doping police. >> in lane 5! >> reporter: while controversy swirled around the pool there was some american success in it. teenager missy franklin won gold in the 100-meter backstroke, and with her parents cheering from poolside, is looking like the future of u.s. swimming. >> just seeing my parents, whoo, it means the world to me that they can be here and i know god has given me so much. and for them to be here and them to watch and be with me and experience it, it's so special. >> reporter: it was an american one-two with matthew grevers and nick thoman winning gold and silver in the men's 100-meter backstroke, but it was the fu

. >> reporter: now, in fact one of the strongest comments has come from john leonard, the executive director of the world swimming coaches. he has said that hperformance ws incredible but also disturbing and suspicious. there will be a lot of people scrutinizing that in the time to come. >> atika, i assume they will test her. is there a rule that they test sort of sporadically or test any winner or just tests anybody who seems to fall outside the bell curve of what would be a normal improvement in anybody's performance. >> reporter: the answer is all of the above. the athletes continue to get tested, not just in the run up to but afterwards, there was an irish swimmer in the atlanta olympics who again broke all of the records, stunning performance but was tested later and found to have actually violated the doping standards and banned from the sport tore several years. we'll have to wait for the test results. >> rrkable performance, so disappointing if it was because of doping. let's talk about the men's gymnastics team. what a disappoint. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, it really was. the

one of the most respected swim coaches in the business american john leonard, was quoted saying "every time we see something unbelievable history shows us that it turns out there was doping involved." y y ye herself credited chinese training method. it's an old argument. the london games have set up the most exhaustive drug testing program ever. all will be tested for 240 banned substances but the dopers, if that's what they are, always seem a step ahead of the doping police. >> in lane 5! >> reporter: while controversy swirled around the pool there was some american success in it. teenager missy franklin won gold in the 100-meter backstroke and with her parents cheering from poolside, is looking like the future of u.s. swimming. >> just seeing my parents, whoo it means the world to me that they can be here and i know god has given me so much. and for them to be here and them to watch and be with me and experience it it's so special. >> reporter: it was an american one-two with matthew grevers and nick thoman winning gold and silver in the men's 100-meter backstroke, but it was the fus

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on the public radio program "fresh air," toledo bishop leonard blair said the sisters are promoting "a new kind of theology." he quotepope john paul ii saying all other human rights are "false and illusory" if the right to life is not defended with "maximum determination." >>> more about the week's "religion and ethics news" now from kim lawton, managing editor of this program, and david gibson, national reporter for religion news service, who joins us from new york. welcome to you both. david, out of all the tragedy in colorado, there has emerged another debate about gun control. should it be considered a pro-life, a right to life issue like abortion? what are people saying? >> well, this debate, bob, was really prompted in the hours after the shooting by a column by father james martin, a jesuit at "american" magazine, popular author, who wrote an essay saying, look, gun control and gun violence is a pro-life issue as much as abortion, as the death penalty, as euthanasia. and pro-lifers, traditional pro-lifers, should get behind it in that context. well, of course, again of all the

on the public radio program "fresh air," toledo bishop leonard blair said the sisters are promoting "a new kind of theology." he quoted pope john paul ii saying all other human rights are "false and illusory" if the right to life is not defended with "maximum determination." >>> more about the week's "religion and ethics news" now from kim lawton, managing editor of this program, and david gibson, national reporter for religion news service, who joins us from new york. welcome to you both. david, out of all the tragedy in colorado, there has emerged another debate about gun control. should it be considered a pro-life, a right to life issue like abortion? what are people saying? >> well, this debate, bob, was really prompted in the hours after the shooting by a column by father james martin, a jesuit at "american" magazine, popular author, who wrote an essay saying, look, gun control and gun violence is a pro-life issue as much as abortion, as the death penalty, as euthanasia. and pro-lifers, traditional pro-lifers, should get behind it in that context. well, of course, again of all th