Results tagged “doping”

• China database to track children [BBC] "China is setting up a DNA database to help trace missing children, as the authorities struggle to tackle people trafficking. By the end of the month, a network of more than 200 DNA centres is due to be set up. Thousands of children in China are stolen or sold each year."
• More on Beijing doping: cyclist, runner, walker join list [LA Times] "Five down, one to go." On the list of athletes at the Beijing Olympics who doped: German cycler Stefan Schumacher, Croation 800-meter runner Vanja Persic and Greek race walker Athania Tsoumeleka.
• China announces regulations for financial information in settlement with US, Europe [AP] "Beijing announced rules that ease controls on foreign financial information providers Thursday under an agreement with the U.S., Europe and Canada, but said those already operating in China must apply for permission to continue. The rules eliminate a requirement that foreign providers must work through a Chinese agent and reduce the amount of information they must disclose about their operations."

China's Food and Drug Administration has officially assigned some responsibility in one of the biggest doping scandals of this Olympics (so far) to a Shanghai company called Auspure Biotechnology, according to the Shanghai Daily. Eleven Greek weightlifters failed drug tests in April and the athletes' subsequent ban from the 2008 Olympics has pretty much destroyed the team's medal hopes. When the positive tests were announced, Greek coach Christos Iakovou said Auspure had sold him tainted vitamins without his knowledge, and claimed to have a written apology from the company as evidence. For more China sports news, check out China Sports Today.

According to the official countdown, the Beijing Olympics are about 240 days away and the pressure is mounting for China's athletes to bring home the bacon, especially in China's strongest events like ping pong, diving, and gymnastics. In traditional Chinese business fashion, gymnastics coaches are making their gymnasts sign a contract to stay injury-free and drug-free in preparation for the Games, according to this article from China Daily. In an unusual move to secure a...