China`s Search for Sporting Success

China's Search for
Sporting Success
By Rory Luscombe & Hugh Sanders
China's Gold Medals 1988-2012
What does it take to
get to the top?
Artistic Gymnastics Medal Table London 2012
Chinese Swimmer Yuan Yuan is escorted by police and customs
officials after a human growth hormone is found in her bag.
"We know that doping had been active in China
- I stress had been. We don't know that now,
but that means there's always going to be
suspicion." – Gregoire Millet, Sport Science director at Lausanne
University
"China's history of doping issues only increases
the suspicion. Sadly that is the reality. We
hope we're witnessing the emergence of a
gifted athlete, but can't be sure." – Jim Ferstile, US
doping expert