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China Team Training At Turkish Centre: Are They Taking Tips From Doper Zhou Ming?
- Updated: May 25, 2016
Chinese swimmers have been working at a training centre at Belek, Turkey, for several seasons but a group on camp there of late, including several national-team members, is reported to have been working with doping rogue Zhou Ming.
Pictures posted on Instagram by Dirk Lange, the former head coach of Germany at the helm of the Austria team in London at the European Championships last week and who bases his international program at the Gloria Sports Centre in Turkey, confirm that a large China contingent is on camp there.
Zhou Ming is not among those in the photo but China swimming sources say that they fear he is involved with the group. SwimVortex has asked coach Lange to confirm or deny a report in the Australian Daily Telegraph that the Chinese doping rogue is working with the China swimmers in Turkey.
The reason why Zhou Ming raises alarm bells is clear: he has the worst doping record of any coach in history in terms of the numbers of swimmers working with him who have subsequently tested positive for doping. A central character in Chinese swimming in the late 1980s and 1990s, Zhou Ming presided over a systematic doping program that led to:
more than 40 positive doping tests among under-age athletes, many of them direct pupils of his the arrest of Yuan Yuan at Sydney airport when 13 vials of human growth hormone were found in her kit bag, the volume of what is a banned (and expensive) substance in sport enough to have supplied the entire China team for the duration of their stay at the World Championships in Perth in early 1998.
At a press conference in Perth 1998, with FINA and Chinese Swimming Association officials present, it was announced that Zhou Ming had been banned for life in the wake of the latest doping scandal involving Yuan and the positive diuretic tests of four of her teammates in out-of-competition tests in the days leading up to racing at Perth world titles.
When this author reported in 2005 …
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