The host Olympic nation has pledged a zero-tolerance policy on doping as it prepares to host the Games in Beijing but behind the scenes the drugs crisis is mounting and about to enter a dangerous new phase. Just 17 days before the Olympic Games open in Beijing, the host nation faces a fresh doping crisis after an investigation found a Chinese hospital ready to perform stem cell gene-therapy treatment on a fictitious American swimmer for US$24,000. The documentary also reveals that a female coach banned twice for doping minors is now a China national team coach, and, for the first time, provides hard evidence that steroids fed the first wave of Chinese Olympic medal winners in the pool as early as 1988, according to an Olympic silver medal winner who has suffered serious ill-health since her retirement from sport. Her revelations taint all Chinese performances at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, at a time when the national team coaches and doctors were consistently the same people. But at the world short-course championships in Manchester in April, Li Hua sat three seats away from Xu Huiqin, a coach with the China national team, a head coach to a provincial team and a woman who has served two doping suspensions after her charges tested positive. read more
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