Report: Chinese swimmers were allowed to compete at Tokyo Olympics despite positive doping tests

Chinese swimmers won Olympic medals in Tokyo after testing positive for banned drug

As many as 23 Chinese swimmers were allowed to compete in Tokyo Olympics despite them testing positive for a banned drug. The World Anti-Doping Agency allowed them to take part in the Games after accepting that the positive tests were due to 'substance contamination'.

SYDNEY, Australia — The World Anti-Doping Agency reported that 23 Chinese swimmers participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games despite positive results on a prescribed drug because international agencies accepted the Chinese authorities’ explanation that the tests had been contaminated. WADA confirmed on Saturday that swimmers had been declared positive for trimetazidine, a heart medication, at a training camp held a few months before the Tokyo Olym…

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Seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games, in 2021, 23 Chinese swimmers were tested positive in anti-doping controls.

A world-wide scandal, never fully investigated by who should have done it -- Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency -- and now brought to light by The China Files, the two-year investigative team of the German public television ARD and the New York Times. A work to eradicate mass doping in China: at the center of the scandal are 23 of the best Chinese swimmers, who, six months before the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, are positive for trimethazidine.…

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