Officials from the Chinese Olympic Committee have confirmed to the state-run news agency Xinhua that all of the Chinese athletes in the games are currently "clean" and that so far there has been no notice from the IOC about athlete doping test results that are positive or abnormal.

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As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the Chinese and the International Olympic Committee had promised more openness for the games.

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Chinese officials provided the Olympic committee with passports, showing that team members were of legal age, but numerous challenges have been made.

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Jesse Helms, R-North Carolina, the ranking Republican on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, called the decision "an endorsement of the government's repression of the Chinese people" and had harsh words for the International Olympic Committee.

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