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USOC comments on Russia-China Games union
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-16 08:46
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Chinese are looking beyond their own 1.3
billion countrymen in an attempt to beat out the United States in the Beijing
Olympics. They want Russia's help, too.
In an arrangement the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee says could "clearly
be suspect," Olympic committees from Russia and China have agreed to work
together in hopes of knocking the United States from the top of the medals table
in 2008.
"To beat America we need to unite our efforts and knowledge ... to achieve
better results in swimming and track and field, where they are strong," Russian
Olympic Committee chief Leonid Tyagachev told The Associated Press last month.
And while USOC chief executive Jim Scherr says he isn't against countries
working together - sharing training techniques, advances in medicine and the
like - he has a problem if the effort is targeted at a single country,
specifically his.
"It's not unique," Scherr told AP this week. "It's mutual support for
training and goals of respective Olympic committees. But to go beyond that and
say the main goal is to pick off one country, versus just mutual support,
probably goes beyond the scope of Olympic ideals and what the Olympics are all
about."
The United States led all countries at last year's Olympics with 103 medals
and 35 golds. China and Russia were second and third: China finished with 32
gold medals and 63 overall; Russia had 27 gold and 92 overall.
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