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Sun Yingjie faces truth as expert says frame unlikely
By Fang Xuan (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-10-25 17:27 Sun Yingjie, who in her words hated everybody
shortly after testing positive for doping, now is able to accept the result. But
anti-doping specialists say it was unlikely she was framed, as she and her coach
have claimed.
 Sun passed the doping test carried out after the Beijing
International Marathon on October 15, but failed the domestic test the following
day after flying to Nanjing, where she won a silver medal in the women's
10,000-meter run at the 10th National Games.
Sun was stripped of her silver after androsterone was detected in her urine.
She has since been banned for an undetermined length of time.
Sun and her coach claimed their innocence as soon as the result came out,
saying they were framed.
"That was my third consecutive title at the Beijing Marathon Championship. I
was so excited that I took this excitement to Nanjing" Sun said in an interview
with Sports Daily. "My alert level was lower. That is lethal to athletes of my
kind," she said, explaining why she took water from an unknown stranger.
Sun's coach had explained that the scandal happened because Sun received a
bottle of water from a stranger two hours before the 10,000-meter race during
warm-ups.
Sun confessed she had heard nothing about androsterone before.
"I knew from medicine specialists later that this was a kind of 'power tonic'
drug. I would never take this unless I was going nuts."
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