Shang Xiutang

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  Shang Xiutang, deputy director of the CSA, said they reported the cases to the world swimming body FINA and the world anti-doping agency WADA right after the results were known last year.

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  Shang Xiutang, deputy director of the China Swimming Administrative Center has insisted that China must win at least one gold medal in Beijing.I must develop their abilities to their full potential and help them become one of the best duets in the world and take a medal at the Beijing Olympics.S Olympic medal team Buy prescription valium without, and he won the individual gold at the Sydney Olympics.Paralympic medal hopefuls in Toronto on Thursday.

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  "It is definitely a big loss to the sport in China," said Shang Xiutang, deputy director of the Swimming Administrative Center, at the ceremony.

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  "As the hosts of the Olympic Games, we hope to grab two to three golds and three to five medals," CSA vice president Shang Xiutang was reported by the Xinhua news agency as saying.
  
  "Our swimmers should have had better performances in Athens.I think we still have much to improve," Shang said.

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  "We will obey the FINA decision," Shang Xiutang, vice president of the China Swimming Association, told the Beijing News."We will continue our fight against doping."
  
  Shang said the discovery of clenbuterol in Zhou's test could have resulted from street food that she had eaten prior to the test, but he did not elaborate on how the substance could have got into the food.

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  Shang Xiutang, vice president of the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA), said that the swimmers can compete in Athens Olympic Games if they reach the Olympic A standard in Changsha.
  
  "The Chinese City Games was added recently by FINA to two other qualifications held in China.One was finished in Tianjin in last April, and the only other one is next year's spring national championships," Shang said.

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  "However, we were informed that because the British team gave up their chance in the relay, we could take advantage of their exit," China Swimming Association vice president Shang Xiutang was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.

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  Shang Xiutang, vice president of CSA, said that 120 doping tests including 90 urine samples and 30 random blood tests among 439 swimmers would be conducted in the City Games, which will openhere Saturday evening.
  
  "We are determined to eradicate drug cheats in swimming and prove that Chinese swimmers can make big splashes fair and square," Shang said.
  
  At the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain last July, China collected three gold and three bronze medals.
  
  Shang added that the CSA will continue to adopt its four-year ban to dope offenders though FINA, world governing body of the sport, reduced it to two years in late September which made formerOlympic champion Claudia Poll of Costa Rica the first prominent swimmer to benefit from the new rule.
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  We believe that the four-year ban is the best way to crack down drug cheats," Shang said.
  
  China has implemented a strict anti-doping policy since early nineties and 48 swimmers with positive results were severely punished.At the last City Games in 1999, three swimmers were expelled following their positive results from random blood tests. (Xinhua)
  
  In the year of 2002, a total of 745 tests were conducted by both the CSA and FINA and no positive result was returned from thetests.
  
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  Shang Xiutang, vice chairman of the Chinese Swimming Association, said: "We have no plan to grab a gold or medal this time because we are not fully prepared."
  
  After the Athens Olympic Games, most of the Chinese swimmers have competed in the National University Games and National Summer Championships while newly-crowned Luo was busy to show off at social activities.
  
  "We are lack of training and preparation.So we don't expect good results, but we will take chance to test our athletes," Shang said.

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  "As the hosts of the Olympic Games, we hope to grab two to three golds and three to five medals," said CSA vice president Shang Xiutang.
  
  "I know it's tough but we will try our best," he added.
  
  China claimed one gold in women's 100 meters breaststroke and one silver in women's 4X200m freestyle relay at last year's Athens Olympics.
  
  "Our swimmers should have had better performances in Athens.I think we still have much to improve, such as strokes, starts, turns and sprints," Shang said.

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