Chinese Maturing With Age
Newcastle Herald
Monday November 20, 2006
A SENIOR Chinese basketball official admits China had been guilty of fielding over-aged players in youth internationals.
"I'm sorry to say that some of our past results from international youth games were not real as we had some over-aged players in the squads," Zhang Xiong, director of the training and research department of the Chinese Basketball Association, was quoted as saying. "But from now on, we promise to have real under-18 or under-20 national teams compete in our internationals." Zhang did not elaborate as to which international matches had been tainted, but said that future age fraud would be dealt with harshly in a new registration policy implemented by the CBA.
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