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Ma Junren (; born October 28, 1944) is a famous and controversial Chinese track coach. He trained several world-class middle and long distance female runners including Wang Junxia and Qu Yunxia, who hold several world records. He and his pupils are also called the ''Ma family army'' (馬家軍) for their stunning performance in domestic and international events. Starting as a track coach in a remote rural middle school, he adopted a systematic, scientific training strategy, which includes encouragement, nutritional tonics using Traditional Chinese medicine and track training balancing stamina and speed. His training regimes are extremely rigorous, involving extremely high mileage (in excess of a marathon per day) run at high altitude. There have been suggestions that he has employed performance-enhancing drugs as part of his training regime. He has strongly denied this, although 6 of his athletes were among 27 competitors dropped from China's team for the Sydney Olympic games after failing blood tests. As a result, he was dropped as a coach from the Chinese Olympic team. Following this episode, he and his entire team of athletes disappeared for several months, fueling further suspicion. Ma is also controversial for his temper tantrums. He has admitted to physically beating his athletes on occasion. His original squad fired him for many reasons, including the late allocation of sports bonuses. Ma retired as deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau on December 1, 2004. He is recently interested in fostering world-class mastiffs. ==External links== * (A Giant Awakens ) * (Ma's army on the march again ) * ( Tough love and turtle soup is Ma's recipe ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ma Junren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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