Renato Canova wrote:
My friend, if you want to be a lier, try to speak about something that nobody knows, not to lie about facts very clear and opposite to what you want to demostrate.
"We know for a fact that there was EPO present and being administered during that camp."
First thing, you can't know for a fact that there was EPO present and being administered during that camp.
The fact is there was one athlete (Anna Yin) that was sent by the Federation to the final training camp before Asian Games in Duoba (2400m altitude), after running 3000 steeple in 9'40"50 in Jinan on 11th July.
This happened for the pressure the Province did with the Federation, because they wanted to have the athlete in the Asian Games.
Anna Yin joined the camp together her coach, on 18th of July, when already the other athletes were in Duoba.
While with all the other coaches we were able to build good relations, discussing the training every day, with the coach of Anna Yin it was not possible to create any link, because he refused to discuss also with the other Chinese coaches, and didn't want to share his training with anybody else.
Since Duoba has a very good lab for analysis, I wanted to use this for having EVERY WEEK a blood test, in order to see the development of all the values DURING the period of altitude, not only before and after.
Anna Yin had the first test on 21st July, and immediately I saw something strange. After the third test (4th August) I asked the Chinese Antidoping to come for controlling the athlete, because her values were not usual.
Here there are the values for every test : Hb, Hct, RBC, MCV and Testosterone.
21.07 : 16.2 - 44.7 - 5.54 - 80.7 - 84.60
28.07 : 15.9 - 43.7 - 5.68 - 76.9 - 79,12
04.08 : 16.5 - 43.3 - 5.35 - 81.0 - 78.22
11.08 : 15.8 - 41.8 - 5.11 - 81.8 - 69.82
18.08 : 15.5 - 41.3 - 5.07 - 81.4 - 56.74
25.08 : 15.3 - 42.8 - 5.11 - 83.7 - 50.53
The officials of antidoping came Duoba every 10 days, and all the athletes of the National Team were tested. This happened not only for the runners, but also for all the athletes in the Team for Asian Games, in every event, and in every training camp (at the end of the season, the antidoping of China had more than 5,000 tests !).
Anna Yin, like some men, were not tested, because were not part of the Team for Asian Games. In China, there is a lot of bureaucracy, and it's very difficult to change something already decided months before.
In any case, following my requests, Chinese antidoping tested her on 22nd Aug, for the first time.
The federation asked Anna Yin to compete in France (Decanation in Angeres, on 30th Aug) because I decided not to send there the number one, Li Zhenzhu, already in the National Team form the beginning of my role as head coach of endurance, since I looked for a medal in Guangzhou.
Anna Yin in Angers was 4th with 9'58"41, and when came back the Antidoping wrote to the Federation she was doped, with testosterone and GH. For avoiding any contrast with the Province, Anna Yin was asked for a new control on 7th September, and they found also EPO in the urine. For that reason she was banned for 2 years, and not included in the Team going to Guangzhou.
So, it's not possible to say that in the camp EPO was administered. This was something absolutely individual, in a way that made me suspicious (together with the analysis of values out of every reasonable range), and myself, and the Federation, quickly acted for discovering the cheat.
"Ding also had suspicious blood values during the time she was in camp with Renato in preparation for the Asian games. ".
This claim is absolutely not true.
These are the values of Ding Changqin, values I already published in LR years ago :
16.07 : 13.2 - 36.5 - 4.52 - 80.7 - 20.70 (still at sea level)
21.07 : 13.0 - 36.8 - 4.42 - 83.2 - 21.46 (in Duoba)
28.07 : 13.3 - 36.7 - 4.53 - 81.1 - 18.93
04.08 : 13,9 - 37.4 - 4.62 - 80.8 - 28.64
11.08 : 14.3 - 37.8 - 4.66 - 81.1 - 24.41
18.08 : 13.9 - 38.1 - 4.73 - 81.1 - 30.34
02.09 : 12.5 - 35.1 - 4.06 - 86.4 - 28.10
09.09 : 13.2 - 36.4 - 4.19 - 86.9 - 29.36
16.09 : 12.7 - 36.0 - 3.98 - 90.6 - 27.44 (again at sea level)
Ding Changqin ran her first race on 27.09 (2nd in 10000m in 31'53"09, PB after leading all the race, with 15'33" the second half), and 5000m on 2.10 (3rd in 15'12"51, again PB, and again after pacing till last lap).
I remember that I showed the values as example that not always, after a long period in altitude, we have increment in Hb and Hct. In the case of Ding, she had values LOWER than before going altitude, and in spite of this, was able to improve dramatically in the race. What really changed is the MCV (globular volume), showing not reaction to the altitude, but ADAPTATION (this is the same situation we find with Kenyans and Ethiopians, always training in altitude).
I challenge everybody to find some suspicion in Ding Changqin's values.
Since you continue to lie about the athletes I coached and doping, I hope this can be the final clarification, and you stop to write falsities without any foundation and evidence.