Wang Yajie gives a rare insight into how China produces Olympic calibre swimmers. FMTNews WangYajie
SHANGHAI: A former teammate of banned Olympic champion Sun Yang has given AFP a rare insight into how China drives its swimmers hard from childhood in the pursuit of national glory.
Sun, the most decorated product of the Chinese system, started swimming at a young age at Chen Jinglun Sports School in Hangzhou, which has bred a number of Olympic stars. The 27-year-old also declined to discuss whether during her spell in the Chinese team – a world often closed to outsiders – she was offered any banned substances.
“We’d go to sleep at 10:00 pm with two or three people sharing a room, usually two,” said Wang, speaking by telephone from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak and a city of 11 million people on lockdown. The length of the ban took into the account the fact that it was his second doping violation, after he was suspended for three months in 2014 for taking a banned substance.
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