Chinese Olympic Committee gives details of eight doping cases
9/7/2008 17:50
The Chinese Olympic Committee today released details of eight doping cases
found in the first half of the year ahead of the Beijing Olympic
Games.
Chinese men's top backstroke Ouyang Kunpeng and wrestler Luo Meng
received the most severe punishments of life-time bans after the two national
team athletes were respectively tested positive for anabolic steroid clenbuterol
and furosemide, a diuretic to lose weight or a marking agent to cover other
banned substances.
Ouyang's coach Feng Shangbao and Luo's coach Zhang Hua
were also suspended for life, Jiang Zhixue, deputy secretary general of the
Chinese Olympic Committee responsible for doping control, told Xinhua.
"We
have tougher rules for the national athletes and their coaches," he said.
The
country's sport governing body State General Administration of Sport put in
force the regulation saying that national team athletes will be banned for life
for doping rules violation and his or her coach will also face life-time
ban.
Two divers Zhang Jun and Gao Li as well as their respective coaches were
each banned for one year after tested positive for furosemide,
Weightlifter
Shan Yan and her coach both received a two-year ban after the athlete tested
positive for indapamide, also a diuretic. Xin Jia of track and field was banned
for four years, with testosterone positive and the coach Zhang Nanalso suspended
for four years.
Jiang said swimmer Yi Changming and Zhang Qi from track and
field were under investigation and the punishments would be made later
on.
"It is a pity that after we educate, test and punish, some people still
risk their career by taking the banned substances," said Jiang.
"But we will
keep cracking down on doping cheats. No doping rules violators, however
excellent they are, can escape punishment," he added.
According to Jiang,
China Anti-Doping Agency had carried out 6,038 tests with 5,095 out of
competition by the end of June and 4,428 for athletes from track and field,
swimming, cycling, weightlifting, wrestling, judo, rowing, Canoe and Kayak,
triathlon and modern pentathlon.
"With the Olympic Games coming close, more
tests will be carried out, especially athletes from the endurance and strength
events," he said.
Xinhua
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