Officials from the Chinese Olympic Committee have confirmed to the state-run news agency Xinhua that all of the Chinese athletes in the games are currently "clean" and that so far there has been no notice from the IOC about athlete doping test results that are positive or abnormal.
The Chinese Olympic delegation "fully respects the Badminton World Federation's decision to punish" its athletes, it said in a statement.
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She said Beijing Olympic organizers and Chinese environment authorities are providing the IOC with daily updates about pollution and weather, which can both have an effect on air quality.
Li Ning, the sportswear company named after the Chinese Olympic star whose shares have been hammered recently amid tough competition, lost another 10% yesterday after it posted its 2010 financial report yesterday.
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Defending Olympic champion Park Ta-Hwan was leading at the final turn, but the 20-year-old Sun surged past his South Korean rival in the final length to seal a place in Chinese Olympic history.
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"These athletes have such a tight time frame to get the mind ready to compete again, " said Mark Verstegen, the founder of Athletes' Performance, the Arizona-based company that trains Olympians and works closely with the Chinese Olympic team.
If you are still not convinced of the folly of our policymakers' objections, consider this: As our U.S. athletes march around the track at London's Olympic stadium wearing their Chinese-made uniforms and waving their Chinese-made American flags, there is a good chance that Chinese athletes will have arrived in London by U.S.-made aircraft, been trained on U.S.-designed and -engineered equipment, wearing U.S.-designed and -engineered footwear, many having perfected their skills using U.S.-created technology.
Hornby has reported a heavy half-yearly loss, with the toymaker blaming weak UK and Olympic sales, and disruption at a key Chinese supplier.
The Chinese stars, who also won Olympic gold in Sydney, are seeded fourth here but had too much quality for top seeds Lee Jae-Jin and Lee Hyo Jung in Saturday's second semi-final.
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As for other sporting venues, the Olympic Green Tennis Centre is now used by the Chinese Tennis Association, and several other sports centres are used by universities.
After failing to be named one of the 25 core Olympic sports, wrestling must now compete with the Chinese martial art wushu, sport climbing, baseball-softball, roller sports, squash, karate and wake boarding.
Australian coach Ken Wood, who trained the Australian Olympic team in the 1980s and has worked with the Chinese Swimming Association since 2008, has been training Ye for the past two years: cultivating her breathing technique, improving her stroke and speeding her turns.
Li Ning was founded by a former Chinese gymnast who won six medals at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
But by this August, millions of Chinese will watch up-to-the-minute Olympic contests on their own handheld mobile TVs.
As Olympic announcers called the first-leg runners onto the track, Chinese workers scrambled to hand-draw bibs with magic markers.
But the 2008 Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing, will offer those Chinese companies that are ready tremendous global media exposure for their brands.
Li Guilian runs Dayang Trands, a Chinese clothing company that is manufacturing the U.S. Olympic uniforms that the American team will be wearing at the opening ceremony in London on Friday.
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Overnight, the Chinese government -- which boasts a long history of investing in Olympic sports -- finally had a reason to back golf.
The two-time Olympic silver medallist and his 10-man crew, who are backed by Chinese funds, are rated as strong outsiders among the eight-yacht race.
Vobile's big break came in 2007, when the Beijing media megalith Central Chinese Television (CCTV) asked the company to help it police Olympic videoclips to prevent their spread on the Web.
Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, the undisputed royalty of Olympic beach volleyball after dominating the 2004 and 2008 Games, edged out their Chinese competitors Tuesday afternoon to advance to Wednesday's final, which will be their last game together.
Supporters of China's Olympic bid argue that the growing prosperity of recent years has brought about a greater openness in Chinese society - that ordinary men and women are increasingly free to live as they like and go where they wish.
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Nepal had agreed to a Chinese request to not allow Everest expeditions in the buildup to the Beijing games when the Olympic flame was being taken up Everest.
The behemoth from Beaverton, Oregon has already shown how much it values the Chinese market by signing sponsorship contracts with stars like NBA phenom Jeremy Lin, tennis star Li Na and Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang.
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