Olympic organizers announced more details about the world's biggest
anti-doping laboratory.
 Boris Velic,Croatian ambassador to
China,plays Kongzhu,a Chinese version of yo-yo while visiting a Beijing
primary school.The school lacated in the Xicheng District, is a part of
the Heart-to-Heart Partnership program,which aims to enhance exchanges
between Beijing students and those in other countries participating in the
Olympic Games.[China Daily]
 |
Officials said more than 100
technicians from 10 different countries will work in the center, which is now
being constructed.
Details of the center were announced at the opening of special Beijing
exhibition, which showcases the International Olympic Committee's 40-year
anti-doping history and urges the Chinese public to become more aware of the
dangers of drugs.
"Anti-doping should not be the only task for sports people, but for all the
common people," said Yang Shu'an, executive vice-president of BOCOG.
"To popularize the anti-doping knowledge to the public is the responsibility
of officials. We hope more young people could realize the danger of the drugs
and refuse to take illegal drugs actively."
Yang said the Chinese Olympic Anti-doping Commission (COAC) was getting tough
on its own athletes.
"In the recent year, China has increased the testing numbers among its
athletes and ordered heavier punishment on the positive cases," said Yang.
"The number of the positive cases in China is much smaller than the average
level of the world."
COAC is also on track to finish its doping control center for the 2008 Games.
It is believed to be the largest and most advanced doping control center in
the world and will test record numbers at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
More than 4,500 cases will be tested in Beijing, 25 percent more than at the
2004 Athens Games (3500 tests) and exactly 50 per cent more than Sydney (3,000
tests).
"During the Games time, the staff in the laboratory is expected to over 100,"
said Du Lijun, vice director of National Research Institute of Sports Medicine.