The revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug seven months before the Tokyo Olympics but were secretly cleared and allowed to continue competing has exposed a bitter and at times deeply personal rift inside the sport, and brought new criticism of the global authority that oversees drug-testing.
An American Olympian who took home a silver medal from Tokyo said she felt her team had been “cheated” in a race won by China.
A British gold medalist called for a lifetime ban for the swimmers involved.
The sports minister in Germany, where a documentary on the case was broadcast Sunday, demanded an investigation.
And a simmering feud between officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency, the global regulator known as WADA, and their U.S. counterparts burst into the open in a flurry of caustic statements and legal threats.
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