Chinese doping scandal that has hung over these Paris Olympics as the events finished Sunday night.

China won the men’s 4x100-meter medley relay in 3 minutes, 27.46 seconds, with two of the four members on the team listed among 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive ahead of the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. The swimmers were allowed to compete after a Chinese investigation ruled that they consumed food that had been contaminated. 

The New York Times reported last week that two more Chinese swimmers had tested positive, including one 2024 Olympian, for a banned substance in 2022 but were cleared by Chinese officials to compete.

The World Anti-Doping Agency stood by its decision to clear the 23 swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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    3 months ago

    Espionage has really gotten ridiculous. Either these swimmers were assisted with doping by their governments and people inside of the WADA, or they’re being sabotaged by Americans. I have no other explanation for how 23 swimmers could have popped as positive for doping by their own country’s organization, then cleared by international ones. Something is fucky. The shit winds are blowin, Randy Bobandy 👴🥃