Article: Swim: Chinese swimmers want respect as well as gold


AAP Sports News (Australia)
12-04-1998
Swim: Chinese swimmers want respect as well as gold

By Rebecca Bryan

BANGKOK, Dec 4 AFP - Chinese swimmers at the 13th Asian Games will try yet again to dispel
the cloud of suspicion hanging over a team that won 42 medals in Hiroshima only to see their
triumphs drowned in a drugs scandal.

Nineteen Chinese swimmers were banned from 1994 through 1996, after Hiroshima medallists
Hu Bin, Xiong Guoming and Zhou Guanbin were disqualified for drug use during the Games and
stripped of their medals.

The scandal escalated and dogged China even at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

The nation's claims that it had cleaned up its swimming program were ...

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