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Organizers hail Chinese National Winter Games a "clean" event

Xinhua, January 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

A total of 346 doping tests have been carried out at the 13th Chinese National Winter Games with no positive results reported so far, organizers said here on Sunday.

"These Games are a clean event as no positive results have been reported so far," Gao Zhidan, deputy director of the National Winter Games organizing committee, told a press conference hours before the Games closed with an outdoor ceremony.

According to Gao, 355 doping tests, including 320 urine ones, have been planned for this year's national winter games, a 10 percent rise from the number of tests for the previous edition in Jilin province.

"It is the most stringent ever at this edition," said Gao, who is also assistant minister of the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC).

Nine tests are scheduled for Sunday as three gold medal events are contested on the last day of the 11-day Games.

A total of 1,388 athletes representing 52 delegations from across the world's most populous nation, including Hong Kong and Macao, competed in 97 events of five sports in Xinjiang.

It is for the first time since the National Winter Games were launched in 1959 that the event has been held outside the northeast provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang. Endit