The World Anti-Doping Agency says it cleared Chinese swimmers to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication.
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers were given the OK to compete in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 despite testing positive for trimetazidine, a banned heart medication. The World Anti-Doping Agency said that the swimmers' tests had come up positive due to 'inadvertently being exposed to the substance through contamination,' a claim initially brought by the Chinese Doping Agency.
The WADA said there had been 'misleading information' that was spreading in the news, which led to their response. The WADA said it had been given a tip by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency as early as 2020 — before this case arose — about allegations of doping cover-ups in China but that USADA never followed up with evidence. However, the WADA says they 'reviewed this case thoroughly' and 'concluded that there was no concrete basis to challenge the asserted contamination.' U.
But the WADA says it 'followed all due process and diligently investigated every lead and line of inquiry in this matter.' 'The information provided to us by USADA and others was reviewed on each occasion in line with our normal procedure, and assessed according to the criteria stipulated within our Confidential Source Policy,' said Gunter Younger, the WADA's director of intelligence and investigations.
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