Just weeks until the Paris Olympics, a doping scandal involving Chinese swimmers as renewed doubts of a level playing field.
The controversy following a report last month that revealed positive drug tests in Chinese swimmers in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics continued to escalate in the past week, with the World Anti-Doping Agency standing by its handling of the situation amid growing criticism from the United States Anti-Doping Agency and elsewhere.
didn’t stop any of the swimmers who tested positive from competing in an Olympic qualifying event and ultimately the Olympic Games. What also concluded that, given the specific circumstances of the asserted contamination, the athletes would be held to have no fault or negligence. As such, and based on the advice of external counsel,
stoop to threats and scare tactics when confronted with a blatant violation of the rules governing anti-doping,” Tygart . “When you blow away their rhetoric, the facts remain as have been reported: on April 25 announced a new review of its process via an independent prosecutor, Eric Cottier. That also drew criticism from USADA, as
does not have the authority to issue a provisional suspension, and it reiterated that
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