Company sends apology to Greeks

A Chinese company blamed for providing tainted dietary supplements that led to positive dope tests for 11 members of the Greek national weightlifting team has admitted to sending an apology letter to team officials, a Chinese newspaper reported.

On Monday, a Greek Weightlifting Federation official told Reuters that a Chinese company had sent an apology letter for mistakenly adding a number of banned toxic and cancer-causing substances to supplements it had provided the team for months. The case has triggered a judicial investigation, led by an Athens prosecutor, and has shocked Greeks who have held the country's weightlifting team in high esteem.