Liu Peng (the senior Chinese sports official) said that 15 positive cases were found in 2007 when a record-high of 10,238 tests were conducted.
The head of China’s State General Administration of Sports said that among all the tests, the Chinese anti-doping center were entrusted by other countries and regions to carry out 1,382 while 8,856 were for the Chinese athletes.
“The positive rate is less than 0.2%, which stands as a new low since China started to conduct doping tests,” said Liu. China started doping tests in 1990 when 165 tests were done. “We always take the zero-tolerance stand towards doping cheats and will try our best to make sure that we send a clean Chinese squad to the Beijing Olympic Games,” he added. For the Science and Education department which is responsible for doping control in SGAS, they were filled with mixed feelings. Department chief Jiang Zhixue revealed that certain events such as weightlifting still remain the dangerous mine field. “Seven positive cases were found in weightlifting event, accounting for almost half of the total last year,” said Jiang. “A couple of national team members were caught.”
“This awoke us to the fact that there are certain loopholes in national teams’ management although we are making headway in doping control,” he said.
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