Ouyang Kunpeng var ein hin besti kinesiski ryggsvimjarin, til hann áðrenn OL í Beijing í 2008 varð testaður positiv fyri doping, og tá fekk 2 ára karantenu. Hann hevur trenað meðan hann var í karantenu, og kundi hugsað sær at byrja aftur, men fær nú at vita frá kinesisku ítróttarmyndugleikunu, at hann ongantíð aftur sleppur at umboða Kina í nakrari kapping, yvirhøvur.
“We won’t let him represent China in any competition,” swim official Yuan Haoran told The Associated Press by phone. “He won’t enter the Chinese national team again because of the very bad precedent he set.”
WADA’s director general, David Howman, says there’s not much the agency can now do to help the swimmer, even though it and FINA, swimming’s world governing body, did intervene against China’s initial decision to suspend Ouyang for life. They leaned on China by filing an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, eventually prompting China to reduce the ban to two years.
“If the Chinese authorities do not allow him to compete in Chinese government sponsored events, this is not a matter of anti-doping rules but rather of Chinese regulations. There is not much WADA could do about it,” Howman said in a statement to the AP. “The only realistic solution would seem to be that he pursue his swimming career outside of mainland China.”
Bretland brúkar sambært USA Today eisini at banna íðkarar fyri lívstíð frá OL, sum hava verið testaði positiv fyri doping. Og altjóða olympiska nevndin IOC brúkar eisini at leggja tann straff omaná møguliga karantenu, at allir íðkarar sum hava fingið meira enn 6 mánaðar karantenu ikki sleppa at luttaka á næstkomandi olympisku leikum. Men Ouyang fær ein enn harðari straff, sum enntá umfatar allar svimjikappingar yvirhøvur.
China’s punishment of Ouyang, however, goes further still by keeping him out of all government-sanctioned events in his own country. Yuan, a swimming director at the government’s General Administration of Sport, said that domestic ban would last for life for Ouyang.
(Amerikanski) Tony Austin tekur her á scaq.blogspot.com hattin av fyri kinesarum, við beinleiðis tilvísing til teirra egnu Jessica Hardy:
There you have it, China has set the bar higher than anyone else in regards to doping penalties and restrictions and consequently many Chinese athletes will have their lives sullied with career ending infractions for inadvertent doping.
Ironically enough, the Chinese will be now have the moral authority to point fingers at the United States and others for allowing swimmers who took the wrong antihistamine or supplement; (read the word “swimmer” as Jessica Hardy), and can morally label the world’s athletes as dopers in their press.