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Political tensions didn’t cause Chinese swimmers to fail drug tests, nor did those tensions cause China to lift its ban claiming the steroid, metandienone, was in the food competators ate. Tensions did not cause China to blame Australian beef or that metandienone is not used in Australian beef production.
I am cautious in believing this story, the general survival rule is that a person can go 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. She claims she went 40 days without food and water which would be significantly longer than any person would normally survive.