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☆ Warning signs blinking over swimmers’ anger at alleged Chinese doping scandal ahead of Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Eleven of those Chinese swimmers are due to compete again in Paris, and many of their rivals are preparing to go against them with a sense of bitter resignation. Rob Koehler, director of international sports advocacy group Global Athlete, told CNN that they are already anticipating the worst. In a statement, WADA stood by its previous decision-making and said an independent prosecutor had confirmed that its conclusions were reasonable. He said athletes feel as though World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency have failed them and that nobody outside of the sport is paying attention. While none of those swimmers want to publicly comment on the situation ahead of the Games, Koehler believes that they will publicly protest if any one of the 11 Chinese athletes win a medal.

Persons: Rob Koehler, ”, “, ” CHINADA, Witold Bańka, WADA, “ WADA, Travis Tygart, Michal Phelps, Allison Schmitt, Koehler, Australia’s Mack Horton, Sun Yang, “ CHINADA, ” Koehler Organizations: CNN, Olympic, New York Times, Tokyo Olympics, Global, Tokyo, Doping Agency, CHINADA, ” CNN, Agency, US Justice Department, Games, Aquatics, International Olympic, Service Locations: Paris, United States, American, China

☆ Michael Phelps rips World Anti-Doping Agency for inconsistent enforcement of rules: ‘We need to hold them accountable’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Washington CNN —Legendary Olympian Michael Phelps on Tuesday ripped the World Anti-Doping Agency and described an inconsistent application of anti-doping rules that is driving frustration among clean athletes and concerns over the future of fair competition. US Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart also testified. Why were Chinese athletes treated differently than athletes from other countries? Three years later, news surfaced that some Chinese athletes on that team were not subjected to the same anti-doping rules, casting doubt on the fairness of the competition. Former Olympians Michael Phelps, left, and Allison Schmitt, right, and US Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart testify on Capitol Hill on June 25, 2024.

Persons: Michael Phelps, Phelps, Allison Schmitt, ” Phelps, WADA, ”, “, Schmitt, ” WADA, Travis Tygart, Tygart, CHINADA, Trimetazidine, Witold Bańka, …, Bańka, “ WADA, ” Bańka, Morgan Griffith, Virginia –, Griffith, they’re, Kathy Castor of, ” Tygart, WADA Schmitt, Jim Watson, CNN’s Amy Woodyatt, George Ramsay, Haley Talbot Organizations: Washington CNN, Doping Agency, House Energy, The New York Times, ARD, Department of Justice, International Olympic Committee, Tokyo Games, CHINADA, Olympic Games, ”, WADA Lawmakers, Republican, Democrat, People’s, Getty, month’s Locations: Russia, China, trimetazidine, U.S, Paris, Kathy Castor of Florida, People’s Republic of China, AFP

☆ U.S. Swimming Stars Assail Antidoping Agency Ahead of Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jenny Vrentas | Michael S. Schmidt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two of America’s most decorated Olympic swimmers will ask Congress on Tuesday to hold the global antidoping agency accountable for failing to properly police allegations of cheating by elite Chinese athletes. In testimony prepared for delivery on Tuesday night to a House subcommittee, Michael Phelps, the 23-time Olympic gold medalist, and Allison Schmitt, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, urged Congress to push for reforms of the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. They said the uncertainty about whether Chinese swimmers have been using banned substances is deeply unfair to competitors heading into the Summer Games next month in Paris. The hearing comes two months after The New York Times reported that the Chinese antidoping authorities and WADA had declined to discipline 23 elite Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned drug in early 2021, paving their way to compete at the Games held in Tokyo that summer. Chinese authorities said the positive tests were the result of unwitting contamination of the swimmers and involved tiny amounts of the banned substance, a finding that WADA accepted but that many antidoping experts have questioned.

Persons: Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt, WADA Organizations: Doping Agency, Summer Games, New York Times, Games Locations: Paris, Tokyo

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