China's Sports Spokeswoman: Doping Offences Pollute Sports WorldA Chinese Olympic delegation spokeswoman cried Thursday in Sydney that the doping offences including EPO has polluted the world sports, forcing all the concerned to thoroughly justify "Where are the sports going to today".In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, He Huixian, a former sports reporter, reiterated that "our anti-doping campaign will never tolerate any offender including EPO cheaters and will resort to every measure possible to uphold the fairness to the clear athletes, to the audience and to the sports reporters as well." The spokeswoman complained that some foreign media mis-interpreted China's dismissal of its 27 athletes from the Olympics, stressing that "China has been strengthening its utmost efforts to crack down any doping cheater, and has never and will never spare any efforts in its anti-doping battle." "China is one of the front-runners to introduce the EPO tests in seven sports since 1998 when the campaign to bid for the 2008 Olympics has not yet started, and has conducted 315 blood tests in1999 with six positive cases," the sports official said. "Just like France, China disqualified the six athletes to keep abreast with its steady stance of protecting the health of the athletes and of upholding the principle of fair competition, and so do the case here in Sydney." On the reason why the names of the dismissed athletes were withheld, the spokeswoman explained that "we can't declare them as positive until their doping procedures be over, and they should be granted another chance as they are still very young." "Nowadays, the sports world has been polluted by EPO and other drugs that betray conventional scientific measures," said the official. "All the countries should take care of their own things first instead of fixing their eyes on the others, and the sports can be free of pollution only after everyone concerned takes his own efforts first," the spokeswoman said. "Those who tolerated their own doping offenders, surely failed to uphold their anti-doping principles, and can be reasonably considered as the nests of more doping offenders than those who consistently carried out their tests and brought justice to those offenders on time." |
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