China acknowledges Shanghai company's role in Greek doping bust
Saturday, 2nd August 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)
China's Food and Drug Administration has officially assigned some responsibility in one of the biggest doping scandals of the year to a Shanghai company called Auspure Biotechnology, according to the Shanghai Daily.Eleven Greek weightlifters failed drug tests in April and the athletes' subsequent ban from the 2008 Olympics has pretty much destroyed the team's medal hopes. When the positive tests were announced, Greek coach Christos Iakovou said Auspure had sold him tainted vitamins without his knowledge, and claimed to have a written apology from the company as evidence.
"Investigations have since found that the Auspure Biotechnology Co did illegally smuggle and sell doping formulas," the Shanghai Daily quotes Gao Feng, an official of the Supervision Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, as saying at a press conference yesterday.
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Tags: Auspure Biotechnology, Beijing Olympics, Christos Iakovou, doping, Gao Feng, Greece, Olympics