“Greyjing” in Beijing a Health Risk for Olympic Athletes?
Posted September 11th, 2007 at 7:41 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics, Drugs In Sports
According to Chinese media, “Chinese city traffic police have an average life expectancy of just 43 years because of the dire working conditions and pollution.” Reports like this have worried the Australian Olympic delegation so much that they have announced they will wait until the last minute next summer to arrive in Beijing.
Australian IOC member John Coates said he’d be “telling his athletes to stay away from Beijing until four or five days before their events.” The pollution is so bad in the city that some people have begun calling it “Greyjing.” Add to that the worries of tainted food in the way of pork tainted with growth hormones (which could actually cause positives in athletes’ dope tests) and Beijing could wind up being the riskiest and most controversial Olympics in history.
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Tags: asthma, australian olympic delegation, Beijing, beijing olympics, China, chinese media, greying, growth hormones, olympic games, paula radcligge, pollution, pork
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