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Sun Yingjie faces truth as expert says frame unlikely
By Fang Xuan (www.ming7.cn)
Updated: 2005-10-25 17:27
Wang Dexian, Sun's coach, also denied she took drugs intentionally. "The
pharmacist said androsterone needs 40 days to show effect inside human bodies
and it is useful only to those sprinters or throwers who need explosive muscle
power. It's useless to athletes like Sun."
 However, an "authoritative" anti-doping specialist offered
a different point of view.
"We believe Sun had taken drugs between the marathon and the 10,000 meters,"
said the technician who required anonymity in an interview with Sports Daily.
"Sun is a veteran. She wouldn't commit silly mistakes like receiving water or
food from strangers before big races."
"Even if she did drink water
containing androsterone, it wouldn't be enough to change her urine test result,"
said the technician, adding, "Water needs about six hours to go through the body
to affect urine. The result of the doping test, which was conducted three hours
after she drank that water, was not likely to have been affected."
However, Wang admitted Sun has been using a type of Chinese medicine for
years, including the period of time before the 2003 Paris Athletics Championship
in which Sun won a bronze, but he said the ingredients are nothing close to a
chemical compound.
If Sun was framed as she claimed, there is only one way to help her clear her
name, according to Yang Jiming, an official from China's Athletics
Administration. That is to find out, with police's help, the person who
conceived the trap. Then, the ban would be annulled.
Feng Shuyong, the chief coach of China's athletic group, reserved Sun's hope
to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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