banned distance star sun to have another dope test
China's banned distance runner Sun Yingjie this weekend will receive a random test from the IAAF, world's athletics governing body, local media reported. Sun, bronze medal winner in the women's 5,000m at the 2003 world championships, will be tested for the first time after being suspended for two years for failing a doping test at the Chinese National Games last October, the Beijing-based daily The First said. 'Sun will be obliged to take four out-of-competition tests in two years and she will face a life ban if she misses or fails any test,' said Zhao Jian, the director of the Anti-Doping Department of the Chinese Athletics Association.Xinhua
rats in for the high jump at venues and village
Pests beware! Beijing sanitation officials are about to go on a two-year killing spree, targeting rats, mosquitoes, beetles, ants, lice and fleas in all areas around the Olympic venues and Athletes Village. The project is a prevention initiative aimed at eradicating pests that can carry bacteria and viruses.
coach predicts liu will bust the hurdles world record
China's Liu Xiang, who won the gold for the 110-metres hurdles in Athens, will break the world record in the Beijing games, his coach said. Sun Haiping said his prodigy has been training rigorously and should be able to break the record of 12.91 seconds by 2008, which he equalled in Athens. Liu, 23, became the first Chinese man to win a track gold at the Athens Games. 'Liu will make new breakthroughs in Beijing, doing even better than 12.91,' Sun said.