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"Wang Hongni's use of steroids stems from her own personal behaviour, this will only affect her personal athletic career... our team plan will not be effected by this incident," association head Wang said.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Puedes ver un p en mi frente?? ;-)

This is clearly another false positive like Landis. We all know that endurance athletes would never use testosterone because it wouldn't do anything for them.

Seriously are these guys trying to do this on their own? Can't they bring a real professional like Conte or some dirty Italian, German or Spanish docs with years experience at beating the tests. Surely for the glorification of the People's Republic they could bring in some competent help.

Surely China could just manufacture some obscure steroid that isn't on the market anywhere so it's not on the radar to be tested. For god's sake, if a private company in the US can do it surely a whole nation can do it.

"association head Wang said."

I wonder what Dick had to say about Wang?

On their own? More like: there is something completely organized. Athetes have little to say about it. And if the doctors screw up, athletes are asked to STFU, confess, say it was on their own, and not bring discredit on the whole gov. program...

I think the same way. It makes more sense.

Pretty funny :)

jaretj

The Bejing Olympics are supposed to be China's '36 Berlin Olympics. You won't be able to count the number of "out of the blue" Chinese medal winners. There'll be so many.

They may be keeping it close to their vests in many sports, but the last year or two there have been Chinese women suddenly on the podium of big mountain bike races.

Huge!

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"It is not the great things we do in life that really matter, it's the small things we do with a great heart..."-Mother Theresa

You're sh#tting me...that's a chick???

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Forget speedwork. Speedwork is the icing on the cake and you don't have a cake yet. - MattinSF

Basically they have 9 tenants, live life to the fullest, do not turn the cheak, and embrace the 7 deadly since. - TheForge (on satanists)

wait a minute. are you saying that a whole country is systematically setting their own athletes up to take the fall if one of them chooses to use some obscure beet root or other completely innocent holistic herb that seems to indicate the presence of another illegal substance.

The Chinese have been waiting for their chance to shine on the world stage for years... do you really think they would put it in jeopardy by cheating...

Luckily i think the Chinese have many athletes waiting in the wings that we've never heard of who can jump in to qualifiying races when they need to in order to replace any of these cheaters who get caught!

Yea, sure she did it on her own... "The 24-year-old, who trains with a team run by China's military," it's well know that this kind of organisation is a bit of a 'Club Med' (this one is for you Francois ;) or leisure camp if you prefer.

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Francois-Xavier Li @FrancoisLi
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Coming from nowhere to beating Dahle-Flesja in such a short period of time just comes down to really really hard work.