Intrusive drug testing at the Olympics?

[LanDi Liu]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> What about the "into"?  Together with "opening"?
>
> Joel
>> > "The International Olympic Committee said yesterday it has opened a
>> > disciplinary procedure into Blonska, who finished second ... yesterday."

"Opened" sounds like a mistranslation from Chinese, where "kai1" =
start; open; boil, etc.  "Into" might be something similar.  I know
this is from a Boston Globe article, but they may have lifted some of
it from a Chinese English source.

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
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http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs

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