CHINA: Food cited in illnesses that hit track team - (New York Times)
August 16, 2008 – 6:46 pmBEIJING — John Cook, who coaches the runners Shalane Flanagan, Shannon Rowbury and Erin Donohue, was cited as saying several members of the United States track team became ill at the teams pre-Olympic training center in Dalian, about 300 miles east of Beijing, and food poisoning was the likely cause, adding, When we were in Dalian, a lot of guys got sick five or six every day.
United States Olympic officials, who had acknowledged concerns about food issues in China leading up to the Games, had brought in a chef, Adam Sacks, from the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales University, to handle food preparations for the athletes training in Dalian. Sacks said about 15 percent of the approximately 150 athletes who trained in Dalian experienced some degree of illness, although he and team medical personnel could not determine the cause.
Sacks was quoted as saying, We could not deduce that […]
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