Beijing tightens anti-doping activities
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Chinese anti-doping officials pledged on Thursday to enforce a transparent and open doping control system to combat doping cheats and host clean Olympic Games. Enhanced tests will be carried out for erythropoietin (EPO) and Human Growth Hormone (HGH) popular among athletes for boosting strength and speeding recovery. Both are choice performance enhancers.
“We will catch those drug-users and make sure they get penalized as they should be,” said Chen Zhiyu, anti-doping division chief of Beijing Games organizing committee.
Beijing plans to conduct 4,500 Olympic doping tests, about 25 percent rise from the Athens Games, which witnessed 26 doping cases. In Beijing, the top five in the events and two randomly-selected athletes will be tested for banned substances like steroids and blood-boosters. At least one IOC medical representative, a WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) observer and a representative of the sports federations are present at each center when the athletes are tested. At each center, urine samples are placed in two different containers. Once sealed, they can only be opened in the lab, so chances of swapping the samples will be minimized, said Chen.
A new test kit can track the use of HGH beyond 48 hours, and the EPO tests are also reliable, said Wu Moutian, deputy director of the Chinese Anti-doping Agency, who oversees the lab.
Chinese sports were embroiled in doping scandals in the 1990s and officials are making sure the scandals will not repeat. To redeem its reputation, China launched a vigorous anti-doping campaign with more intensive drug testing and harsher penalties for the cheaters.
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