Chinese Olympic Athletes Blame Performance On Vegetarian Diet
Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.
The Chinese Women’s Volleyball team has decided to eliminate meat from its training diet, due to concerns of consuming meat products contains chemicals that would make them test positive for doping.
The main ingredient of concern is clenbuterol, a drug given to livestock animals that results in leaner meat, but is banned by Olympic committees.
The athletes say the vegetarian diet they’ve been following as an alternative is causing poor performance.
“They have showed significant decline in their strength and fitness,” coach Yu Juemin said.
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