According to sports icon and Winter Olympics bid ambassador Li Na, Beijing would host an "athlete-centered" Olympics should it win the bid. (Photo : Reuters)
China has recently launched an anti-doping education program that will include related lessons to university curriculum and lecture delivery to applicants who were enlisted with a sport specialty.
The program will cover university students as well as graduating secondary school students planning to take sport tests to enter higher level of education.
Jiang Zhixue, head of China's anti-doping campaign, has always been reiterating that education plays a major role in preventing doping cases in under-age athletes.
"Education always comes first to keep young people away from doping," he remarked after a China Anti-Doping Agency lecture to Qingdao University of Science and Technology students.
According to the participating students from the university, who take pride in their national champion soccer team, they have learned a lot from the anti-doping talk.
"I had thought doping had nothing to do with me except reading some doping news from the media. Now I know I need to be much more alert when I take medicine or eat outside," junior student and team member Yu Baihen shared.
Meanwhile, Chinese universities said that they are also lowering the bar for senior high school students who are into sports, granting that they will pass particular sport exams.
Annually, colleges and universities recruit approximately 200,000 students after passing the tests. From this roster came the country's prime sprinter, Zhang Peimeng, and Wang Yu, IAAF World Challenge high jump champion.
It was nearly a decade ago when China started to hone athletes without interfering in their education.
Following the conventional state-run sport system, the government has allowed athletes to start training at an early age. In this set-up, education at sports school is almost regarded as nothing.
This has resulted in people who failed to succeed in sports to have difficulty going back to school after quitting their athletic career.
