Admittedly Americans know a lot about dope, but we take great national pride that we have never been caught tanking a badminton match !!!
USA! USA! <bg>
>>Now maybe this was just an incredible performance by an unknown athlete. But the Chinese have a history, as does the sport of swimming. Remember the notorious East German "womens" teams of the 80s, who looked and performed like NFL linebackers? As does bicycling, where the elite athletes are basically all assumed to be doping.
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>The Chinese have a history? It seems the USA has more story than the Chinese (8 cases against 1 in the Olympics since 1968) according to
this and the details in
here (and they are not counting this guy that just confessed he was doped when USA won gold, I think the COI took away his Gold medal and they were studying the possibility of take away the gold for the whole team, can't remember neither the sport nor the year, but I think it was 20 years ago or so the doping, revealed recently (like last week or so?))
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>{update}
>no, it was not 20 years ago but 2004 and it was not a He but a She
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2012-07-21/IOC-strips-Crystal-Cox-of-gold-medal/56394148/1>{/update}
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