Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an 'all-time low' in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers.
NEW YORK -- Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an"all-time low" in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers.
"It's hard going into Paris knowing that we're going to be racing some of these athletes," said Ledecky, who will be at U.S. Olympic trials starting June 15."And I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low." Chinese authorities did not penalize the athletes after determining the drug had entered the swimmers' systems through contamination. The World Anti-Doping Agency accepted that explanation, saying in part that it had very little chance of winning an appeal had it opened a case.
"I'd like to see some accountability here," she said."I'd like to see some answers as to why this happened the way it did. And I'd really like to see that steps are taken for the future so that we can regain some confidence in the global system."
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