In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million US in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit.
An investigation has found that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance before the 2020 Olympics — but were still cleared to compete by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Several of those swimmers went on to win medals, and that’s not sitting well with some competitors heading into the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Tygart says nine of the swimmers who tested positive ahead of the 2020 Games have met qualification criteria and could be named to China's team for the 2024 Olympics. Tygart doesn't buy that they ingested it unwittingly because the drug comes in a pill form. "How does the pill get into a kitchen that somehow contaminates , if that's the claim WADA and CHINADA are trying to make?""If the idea … is that this was planted by CHINADA or by the Chinese public authorities in the hotel, in the kitchen … why on earth would they not have found some fall guy?" Wenzel told Galloway.
"Whether there will be further questions that will be asked, whether there will be a publication of the report, we need to seek guidance on that from our executive committee."Part of Tygart's frustration with this case is the stark contrast against the handling of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case.
But Wenzel, who was the lead advocate in the Valieva case, said he's surprised Tygart thinks these cases are comparable.
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