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Chinese sprint champ Wang fails doping test

BEIJING (AP) Chinese women's 100-meters champion Wang Jing has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and faces a lifetime ban from the Chinese athletics federation. The 21-year-old Wang will be stripped of the 100-meters title she won at the... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, Oct 26 2009

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