{"id":21263,"date":"2008-06-27T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=21263"},"modified":"2008-06-28T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:30:50","slug":"chinese-swimmer-banned-following-positive-drugs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/06\/chinese-swimmer-banned-following-positive-drugs-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Swimmer Banned Following Positive Drugs Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chinese swimmer Ouyang Kunpeng has tested positive for steroids and will, along with his coach, be banned from competition for life. The announcement is a “public relations disaster” for Beijing, reports Richard Spencer for the Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n Ouyang, 25, was a typical product of China’s intensive training schemes, originally selected for the men’s national team at the age of 13, then a record.<\/p>\n Born in provincial Jiangxi, he is a member of the Shanghai municipal team and is a national record-holder in the backstroke. He was also intending to compete in butterfly events in August.<\/p>\n The investigation into whether he might have taken the drug by accident was confirmed by an official from the technical department of the National Sports Administration, China’s sports ministry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese swimmer Ouyang Kunpeng has tested positive for steroids and will, along with his coach, be banned from competition for life. The announcement is a “public relations disaster” for Beijing, reports Richard Spencer for the Telegraph: Ouyang, 25, was a typical product of China’s intensive training schemes, originally selected for the men’s national team at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,116],"tags":[1145,6992,1479],"class_list":["post-21263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-olympics-2008","category-world","tag-drug-testing","tag-olympics-doping","tag-steroids","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n