The Times correction
NY Times magazine’s Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel has created a quite stir in the Chinese media (北青 is pretty good in terms of finding truth .. Lost in Translation as it turned out) but inaudible in the USA, especially athletes taking drugs is a sensitive subject, like the most recent A Rod’s drug problem.
The author or the Times made the correction. In the original article, the author wrote:
…the head coach insisted she play through, overruling a doctor’s recommendation, by taking steroid pills, to which she was allergic.
The corrected version goes this way:
The note didn’t elaborate on her reasons: the burnout from excessive training, the outrage at her coaches’ attempts to squelch her romance with a male teammate named Jiang Shan, and the debilitating period that
the head coach insisted she play through, overruling a doctor’s recommendation, by taking steroid pills, to which she was allergic.which the team leader wanted her to play through by taking hormone medicine
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