Three Athletes Disqualified from China's National Games

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Three Athletes Disqualified from China's National Games

Three more athletes had been disqualified from China's Ninth National Games for failing a doping test or having abnormal blood test results, the organizers announced Friday.

Three more athletes had been disqualified from China's Ninth National Games for failing a doping test or having abnormal blood test results, the organizers announced Friday.

Long Shengzhong, a 22-year-old rower from southwest Chinese province of Guizhou, had tested positive of steroids and had thus been driven out of the national games.

And, as a result, the Guizhou team had their seventh place in the earlier men's quadruple sculls event annulled. Long faces further punishment by the Chinese Rowing Association.

Track and field athlete Sun Jiawei, 23, of Jilin Province, and Pan Guangchun, a 30-year-old cyclist from Liaoning Province, had also been disqualified from the games due to abnormal results from their earlier blood tests.

Their competition results were also annulled, the games organizers said on Friday.

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