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Ma mystery sure to live on
HIROSHIMA. Oct 4‘ Ma Junren arrived in Hiroshima on Tuesday to clalpi some assured Asian Ga-
mes gold medals but he warned that his "army" of runners will really peak at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, reports AFP
The now - legendary athletics coach was first off the plane that brought the latest Chinese contingent to Hiroshima. He was mobbed in the airport as he waited for his track stars to join him.
Ma said he had brought two men who have been added to his battalion of seven women runners, including world champions Wang Junxia and Qu Yuruda. for Hiroshima.
T am looking for five gold medals for my team.' he told reporters.
But In a warning of what to expect, he added: "They will reach their peak for the 1996 Olympics. Tney have not been at their top form this year and they may not be next year either”
After their success at the World Championships last year. Wang and Qu were kept away from the international Grand Prix circuit this year. Ma himself has also been struck down by a mystery ill-
ness which his entourage described as " a stqpiach ailment.”
Wang, the 10.000m and 3.Q00m world record bolder and now one of the world's premier athletes, gave a relatively modest assessment of her chances In Hiroshima. "I don’t think I can break a world record here. I came to win a gold and 1 think 1 can do that.” she said.
Ma has arrived with the mystery surrounding his training methods still intact. No-one outside China knows the key to the success of the former soldier and self-taught track expert, which is sure to continue here
His "army” made Its first major impact at the World Championships in Stuttgart, where Wang. Qu and Uu Dong all won middle-distance titles before stunning the world by shredding the record books In Beijing last September.
Their rivals immediately blamed drugs but the tide of opinion has now turned. Several top western coaches share the opinion of former British supremo Frank Dick that: "They are working harder than us and may have discovered better ways of recovering from training — we should try and learn from them.”
Zhu Zanling, deputy secre
tary-general of the Chinese Olympic Committee, argued: "It seems only the United States and Europe are allowed to become a powerful force in athletics. When China becomes a force It is not accepted and there is all this talk about drugs. Why?”
Liaoning-based Ma. however, has shrewdly cashed in on the mystery. Altitude training and discipline were ‘the key. he revealed — as well as turtle blood and an elixir he was quick to market and sell to the highest bidder.
He Is also the supreme politician, winning a power game with Chinas athletics bosses by reportedly threatening to resign at the start of the year over Interference In his training methods and lack of financial support.
The shroud of mystery continued when Wang and Co, who are reported to run huge distances everyday, were pulled out of the London Marathon at the last minute and have barely been seen since outside China.
China's national athletics coach Han Funlin said there would be no world records here, because Ma's runners had been plagued by injuries recently.
But one thing Is sure — the Ma Mystery, as well as his success. looks sure to continue