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The delegation was to examine, in conjunction with the Chinese Swimming Association, the results of the Chinese investigation into the positive doping cases, and to study measures to be taken to eliminate drug use in the sport. The delegation arrived in Beijing on February 16 and held discussions with, among others, the Minister and Vice Minister of the State Commission for Physical Culture and Sports, as well as some of the swimmers who had tested positive for triamterene in Perth. Unfortunately the names of the swimmers interviewed were not released. There must be a thorough probing of what is happening in the provincial sports institutes, the youth sports schools where the use of human growth hormone is suspected, and the Army training group, which is reported to be using the sophisticated High Resolution Mass Spectrometer. Also of Liaoning is swimming world champion Bin Lu, who tested positive for dehydrotestosterone in September 1994.