Official:No doping scandals before Games
(AP)
Updated: 2007-04-06 09:36

An official from China's top sports body said he wants no doping scandals in the run up to the Summer Olympics next year, a state-run sports newspaper reported Thursday.

"There should be no big doping scandals in all central and local sports departments before the Beijing Olympic Games," the China Sports Daily quoted Jiang Zhixue of the General Administration of Sports as saying.

Jiang is from the administration's science and education department. He said China will boost its anti-doping education for all national team athletes.

"Education is the key," Jiang was quoted as saying.

Olympic officials announced last year the number of doping tests at the 2008 Olympics will be increased from the number performed in Athens. About 4,500 doping tests will be conducted in Beijing, compared to about 3,500 tests at the 2004 Games.

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