{"id":134571,"date":"2015-05-20T21:28:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=134571"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:40:56","slug":"are-katinka-hosszus-performances-being-aided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/are-katinka-hosszus-performances-being-aided\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Katinka Hosszu&#8217;s Performances Being Aided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\">Commentary by <span class=\"fn\">Casey Barrett<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Katinka Hosszu\u00a0is the best all-around swimmer on earth right now\u2026 What everyone is talking about, but no one wants to say\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no proof. There never is, not when it matters, not when it\u2019s needed most. So, this is what happens: the coaches grumble; the experts roll their eyes; the athletes offer lukewarm congrats at the end of each eye-popping race. Everyone talks, but no one speaks up.\u00a0She has never failed a drug test, and without that proof positive test it\u2019s all just jealous hearsay.<\/p>\n<p>Except the chatter\u00a0can often be\u00a0true, and the visual evidence \u2013 on the body and the scoreboard \u2013 generally doesn\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n<p>Our latest Exhibit A: Hungary\u2019s \u201cIron Lady\u201d Katinka Hosszu. FINA\u2019s reigning World Swimmer of the Year; three-time world champion; holder of five short course meter world records; and the woman who, last fall, became the\u00a0<a title=\"Hosszu tops $1 million\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swimvortex.com\/katinka-hosszu-to-become-first-race-prize-dollar-millionaire-in-swimming-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">first swimmer ever to surpass $1 million<\/a> earned solely in prize money in the pool. She did this, of course, by globe-trotting the World Cup circuit and swimming a superhuman number of races at almost every stop.<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in a considerable amount of fawning press from the world\u2019s swimming media. \u201cIron Lady\u201d has a certain brand-name ring to it, and Hosszu keeps the headlines pumping. No one competes, consistently, at a higher level than she does. Repeat \u2013 no one, ever. Not Michael Phelps or Katie Ledecky and certainly not Ryan Lochte, who\u2019s always tended to look like a beaten slow sack of chiseled flesh when he races while immersed in heavy training. But not Hosszu. Her consistency, her ability to recover, and her never-flagging form continues without breakdown, regardless of when or where the race is going down.<\/p>\n<p>Consider last weekend at the Charlotte Arena Pro Swim Series. Hosszu raced in seven individual events. She won six: the 200 free and the 400 IM on day one; the 200 fly and 100 back on day two (along with a why-not 9th in the 400 free); and the 200 IM and 200 back on day three. It was that last double on the third day that caught many eyes. Within a sixteen minute span, Hosszu posted the top time in the world this year in the 200 IM (2:08.66) and returned after a gasp of a warm-down later with a 200 back in 2:07.79, the third fastest time on earth this year. Not bad for an in-season meet that witnessed most of the superstars in attendance plodding through some very tired, in-training swims.<\/p>\n<p>Since London, this has been a pretty standard meet\u2019s showing for Hosszu. She\u2019s always entered in a bounty of events and she always tends to deliver incredible performances every time she touches water. I understand the whole <a title=\"USRPT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usrpt.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ultra-Short Race-Pace Training (USRPT)<\/a> philosophy now in vogue, being popularized and questioned through <a title=\"Michael Andrew Becomes a Man\" href=\"http:\/\/capandgoggles.com\/2014\/04\/25\/michael-andrew-becomes-a-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">the exploits of young Michael Andrew<\/a>, yet Hosszu\u2019s travel-the-world-collect-the-cash training program stretches the limits of even that dubious science.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to come out and point fingers. But I\u2019m not alone, and past signposts point down some dark roads.<\/p>\n<p>For the last year or so, I\u2019ve been immersed in writing a documentary called \u201cThe Last Gold.\u201d It\u2019s a film about the tragedy of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, when the last of the innocent days of Olympic sport were lost. A doped East German team of women appeared on the Olympic landscape and they forever corrupted the sport. Lives were altered and shattered, on both sides, and we\u2019ve never viewed athletic performance in quite the same way again.<\/p>\n<p>One driving narrative of our film is the failure of the press to speak up in the face of such obvious corruption. In retrospect, and even in the present tense, it was beyond obvious what was going on. We were witnessing female bodies be distorted to unnatural strength and power, and they were delivering performances that could not be explained by any rational observer. Those in the know knew what was going on, but there was no proof. So no one said much of anything. Instead, the press labeled the few brave souls who spoke out, like Shirley Babashoff, sore losers. When in fact, these were the truth tellers, the ones outraged by the ugly facts hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has changed. Forty years later, it continues to happen, in every sport, every time there\u2019s a champion who stretches plausible achievement in ways that don\u2019t quite pass the bullshit test for anyone paying attention. For years I reveled as the blasphemous bastard who loved to incense my Lance-loving friends (especially those who liked to ride bikes) by calling Lance Armstrong a liar and a cheat and the worst kind of athlete scum ever to compete in any sport. That\u2019s what he was, and is, and sometimes it\u2019s a damn shame to be right.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly, every cynic hopes to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my suspicions are\u00a0wrong now. It\u2019s just that there\u2019s a distinct smokey aroma around Katinka Hosszu\u2019s performances these last two years. And where there\u2019s smoke\u2026 Hell, finish the clich\u00e9 yourself. Instead, I\u2019ll share this indelicate comment made by a close friend when I first told him I was thinking of addressing this. Said he: \u201cBeing\u00a0surprised that Hosszu might be doping is like going to a strip club and being surprised that the strippers have fake tits!\u201d Apologies if that offends anyone\u2019s delicate sensibilities. Sometimes the best similes are the crude ones.<\/p>\n<p>For all of Hosszu\u2019s incredible achievements there is one rather glaring omission from her resum\u00e9. She has never won an Olympic medal. Not gold, which is the prerequisite for American greatness in swimming, I mean <em>any<\/em> color medal. Curious for an athlete so utterly dominant in her sport for years on end. It also may go a long way in explaining her current status as not only the best, but the most speculated about swimmer in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a title=\"Hosszu - NBC Sports, April 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/olympictalk.nbcsports.com\/2015\/04\/15\/katinka-hosszu-swimming-olympics-mesa-pro-swim-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Sports.com published a story<\/a> about how Hosszu emerged from depression after the 2012 London Olympics, when she placed 4th in her signature event, the 400 IM. She expected gold. In her own words, she \u201cgave up\u201d with two laps to go and despite having more events on her program, she admitted that \u201cmy Olympics was pretty much done. I wanted to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her spirit, she says, was shattered by the swimmer who won that 400 IM in London. 16-year-old Ye Shiwen of China, who blistered through the final 100 meters in a split so fast (58.68) that it seemed impossible for a woman \u2013 that is, without the help of performance enhancement. There was outraged talk that Ye had to be doped, <a title=\"Judging a Champion By Race\" href=\"http:\/\/capandgoggles.com\/2012\/08\/01\/judging-a-champion-by-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">some of it bordering on the xenophobic<\/a>. True or not, most believed it. Did Hosszu? That\u2019s only for her to say.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, here\u2019s one thing that we\u2019ve learned in producing a documentary that centers around doping and the dark clouds that circle it. There is one prerequisite for athletes who dope: They must convince themselves that their competition is doing it. That is the only thing that can validate crossing this line.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Katinka Hosszu\u2019s spirit was crushed by a performance achieved through dubious means. Ever since, she has been the one standing atop every podium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note: The Hungarian Swimming Federation issued a statement defending Katinka Hosszu after this commentary was posted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hungarian-swimming-federation-defends-katinka-hosszu-with-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The above commentary is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views\u00a0of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Casey Barrett Katinka Hosszu\u00a0is the best all-around swimmer on earth right now\u2026 What everyone is talking about, but no one wants to say\u2026\u00a0 There is no proof. 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