Yes, many foreign athletes in China have experienced a little Sun Zi for themselves when they experience horrible digestive problems on the day of their competition against naturally superior Chinese athletes (with Chinese officials to boot). Add to that the potential for steroids to be added to athletes' food in the Olympic village so they all get banned and shamed for doping (especially US, Latino and European boxers and black and Russian track athletes, Aussie/US/Canadian swimmers, etc).
The foreign teams were going to bring their own food, but the Chinese Olympic planners, with the full support of the IOC/UN losers, has found a way to make sure that the world's best are either too sick to compete or driven out of the Olympic village in roided shame.
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Food ban for Games athletes
2008-2-22
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Foreign athletes will be prohibited from taking their own food into the Beijing Olympic Games Village in order to ensure food security, Olympic officials said yesterday.
Outlining food safety rules for the Games, Kang Yi, catering chief of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, said the rule complied with standard international practice.
"Foods are banned mainly out of safety concerns, and beverages are not allowed in the Olympic village to protect sponsors' rights," she said.
Xiang Ping, deputy director of Games services department, said while athletes could not take their own prepared food to the athletes village, medicines ''will be treated differently.''
"Athletes who have long taken certain kinds of medicines should first report the medicines via the designated personnel of their respective countries and then might be able to take the medicines to Beijing," said Xiang.
The comments follow reports that the United States delegation was planning to set up a training camp outside the Olympic Games Village where the athletes could prepare their own food.
Xiang said she had received no formal notification of the plan, and added it was unnecessary for foreign teams to bring their own food.
"There is no need to bring prepared food on the part of athletes as there is a great variety of food to meet everybody's needs at the athletes village," said Xiang.
Tang Yunhua, spokeswoman of the Municipal Office for Food Safety, said food standards for the Beijing Games were stringent.
Xinhua |