Team USA Says No General Tso's at Olympics

The U.S. Olympic Committee announced today that it would not eat Chinese food at the 2008 Olympics and instead planned to ship some 25,000 pounds of meat and other food to the training camp at Beijing Normal University. Chinese officials deny that tainted food could be a problem, and said that intense measures like satellite tracking and bar codes will be in place to track food from the pasture to the plate.
"I feel it's a pity that they [the Americans] decided to take their own food," Kang Yi, the head of the food division for the Beijing organizing committee, told ESPN.
Nonetheless, athletes aren't taking any chances. Steroids used in meat production could trigger positive doping tests and cause a PR disaster, if not outrightly ruin a career. Last year, in fact, a caterer working with the USOC went to China to check food safety and found dangerously high level of steroids in chicken available at the supermarket.
“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes," Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island, told the New York Times. "They all would have tested positive.”
--Damon Tabor