NANCHANG, China - Ye Shiwen is already China's youngest ever (long-course) swimming world champion, but the 15-year-old girl has an even more ambitious goal.
With the 2012 London Olympics looming, Ye hopes that she could add to her biography soon another item - the country's youngest Olympic title-holding swimmer.
"Every athlete wants to become an Olympic champion. And, of course, I am no exception," Ye told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing 7th Chinese National City Games, a quadrennial event held for athletes aged under 20 and seen as a seedbed for future Olympians.
Ye won the women's 400 individual medley Monday night with a scorching fast time - 4 minutes 33.66 seconds, standing second only to Elizabeth Beisel's 4:31.78 this year. That effort bettered Ye's 4:35.15 from the world championships in Shanghai in July, and clipped Ye's personal best of 4:33.79 set as the Asian Games last November. She remains 10th in the all-time rankings behind Yana Klochkova's 4:33.59 from 2000.
But, in the 200m individual medley, in which she was the reigning world champion, Ye clocked in 2 minutes 10.01 seconds, well off her top-ranked time of 2:08.90 from the Worlds.
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