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Portillo alleges, Chinese like Nazi regime
Posted by grumpylarry at 13:49 on 27 Mar 2008
The Chinese government has launched a furious attack on the former defence secretary Michael Portillo over an article he wrote comparing this summer's Beijing Olympics to the notorious Berlin Games of 1936, describing him as "despicable".Mr Portillo suggested that the Chinese may come to regret staging the games just as Hitler did in1936. The games to present Aryan superiority, where Jessie Owens the Negro sprinter won 4 gold medals.
Also, the systematic government sponsored use of drugs in training. the East German system, is rumoured to be in use.
China's decision to appoint Ma Junren as its deputy head coach for the world championships appeared even more ill-conceived than it did originally when it was announced yesterday that two of the female runners he trains have failed drugs tests. Suspicion has surrounded Ma's runners since 1993 when his team of unknown peasant women took all three medals in the 3,000 metres as well as gold and silver in the 10,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart.
Liquing Song and Lili Yin are among three Chinese athletes who have been banned for two years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation after testing positive for the banned body-building drug testosterone more than a year ago. Yunfeng Lui, a male race walker, has also been suspended.
This cheating in China has been going on for a number of years. The Chinese deny that they have an organised drug programme, and insist that the offences are down to the individuals who will be punished.
1994 11 athletes, including 7 swimmers were caught using drugs at the Asian games
The drugs scandal surrounding the Chinese swimming team comes shortly after fresh revelations about systematic drug abuse by medal winning East German athletes in the 1970s and 80s.
The four - women swimmers Wang Luna, Cai Huijue and Zhang Yi, and male swimmer Wang Wei - tested positive for the diuretic triamterene.
Medical experts say the drug can be used to mask the use of steroids.
2002 Just nine days from the Opening Ceremony, the Sydney Olympics has tasted its first drug scandal
Chinese Olympic officials today confirmed that 27 of their athletes have been withdrawn after returning suspicious blood samples and it seems there might be more to come.
2008 Performance-enhancing drugs banned in Olympic sport are being produced and sold in large quantities in China, close to the sites where the Games will be staged this summer.
Human growth hormone (HGH), regarded as the drug of choice for athletes, poses the greatest threat to the Beijing Games being drug-free because it is difficult to detect unless tested for within 24 hours of being taken.
The government is also mobilising its army of rabid bloggers in its support, after Mr. Portillo's article appeared in the Sunday Times.
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