1.   Chinese officials adamantly deny existence of a state-run doping program, claiming instead that individual coaches push too hard.

2.   Today, she carries the bitter reminders of being one of the victims of a systematic East German doping program.

3.   Presiding judge Hansgeorg Braeutigam said the trial showed that the young swimmers suffered injury such as unusual muscle growth as a result of the doping program.

4.   A former East German medical official has been given the heaviest fine to date in trials dealing with the systematic doping program of athletes in the communist state.

5.   A spate of drug scandals involving Chinese swimmers has led critics to charge that China has a systematic doping program like the one that existed in East Germany.

6.   Accusations of a concerted doping program and the positive tests prompted China to strengthen its drug testing program.

7.   After the trip, FINA warned China that it needed more testing of its swimmers although it found insufficient evidence of a systematic doping program.

8.   Ajan said he does not believe there is any systematic, state-supported doping program in China.

9.   Chinese officials have denied the existence of any systematic, state-sponsored doping program similar to the one that operated in former East Germany.

10.   China denies running a systematic doping program and says it has strengthened efforts to weed out and punish drug cheats.