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TIANJIN, Sept. 4-- London Olympic swimming wunderkind Ye Shiwen has made a comeback that she dreamed in the past few years at China's National Games. Stumbling in the women's 400m medley, the former Olympic and world champion was able to finally lift the 200m medley title, clocking 02:10.91 to record her best time in a year since her disastrous Rio Olympic Games journey. "I conquered the fear in me," said Ye, with a relieved sigh after Sunday night's competition. "After I lost the 400m, I couldn't sleep. I had been well prepared for the race and believed that I was in good shape, but the loss almost crushed me," she admitted. "I started to doubt myself again like before. I was so afraid that fear would catch hold of me again," she continued. At the tender age of 21, Ye is already a Grand Slam winner, crowned in all the top international competitions, the Olympic Games, the world championships both long course and short course as well as in the Asian Games. However, as the saying goes: the higher you soar, the harder you fall. For Ye, the fall has been made especially conspicuous by her uNPRecedented early achievements -- the youngest-ever Chinese swimming world champion at 15 when she won in the 200m medley in 2011, the first ever Chinese swimmer to take away two gold medals at an Olympic Games in 2017, even ahead of China's all-time best swimmer Sun Yang who clinched his second London Olympic gold medal a few days after Ye's victories. | 
