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China was alleged to have conducted a state-sanctioned doping operation in the 1980s and 1990s by former General Administration of Sport physician Xue Yinxian.[1] The World Anti-Doping Agency investigated these allegations and found no evidence to corroborate them.[2] Other allegations of doping have focused on swimmers[3] and track and field athletes, such as those taught by Ma Junren (the Ma Family Army).[4][5] In the Olympics, China has been stripped of a total of three gold medals for doping; all were weightlifters competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[6] Eleven Chinese athletes were stripped of medals for doping at the 1994 Asian Games.[7] China's doping has been attributed to a number of factors, such as the exchange of culture and technology with foreign countries.[8] Some scholars believe that the country has become the focus of Western anti-doping condemnation in place of East Germany and other former Eastern Bloc countries.[9]
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