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Agence France-Presse

Chinese athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs will receive criminal punishments and jail terms from next year, as China cracks down on doping ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, state media reported.
China’s sports administration and top judicial authority are drafting rules that would apply criminal law to doping cases, official news agency Xinhua said Friday.
Citing remarks made at a Friday meeting by Gou Zhongwen, director of China’s sports administration, Xinhua said that the new anti-doping punishments will be put into effect “probably in early 2019”.
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“It is our will to show the world we are really serious about anti-doping, and are taking concrete measures on fight against doping,” Gou said.
China’s sports administration said it could not confirm Xinhua’s report.
Doping scandals have riddled China’s international sporting record in the past decade, with some athletes stripped of Olympic gold medals.
In January 2017, three Chinese women’s weightlifting gold medallists at the 2008 Beijing Olympics were disqualified and stripped of their medals for doping following a reanalysis of their drug tests.
Later that year, a Chinese doctor claimed that there had been a systematic doping programme in China during the 1980s and 1990s across a range of sports, in an interview with German media.
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All medals won by Chinese athletes at major international tournaments in the last two decades of the 20th century are tainted by doping, alleged the whistleblower, Xue Yinxian.
This year, China banned several of its own athletes who were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs, as Beijing works to clean up its international sporting reputation.
In January, a Chinese speed skater was handed a two-year ban and struck off the national team ahead of the Pyeongchang Games in South Korea.
That same month, China’s national marathon champion and Olympian Wang Jiali was banned for eight years after failing a drugs test, her second violation.
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Several athletes have been stripped of their Olympic gold medals for performance enhancing drugs
Team doctor alleged that doping was systematic in the 1980s and 1990s


Several athletes have been stripped of their Olympic gold medals for performance enhancing drugs


Jail time for Chinese athletes found guilty of doping as Beijing cracks down ahead of 2022 Winter Olympics: reports

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Several athletes have been stripped of their Olympic gold medals for performance enhancing drugs

Team doctor alleged that doping was systematic in the 1980s and 1990s