USADA demands investigation into WADA for allowing Chinese swimmers to participate in Tokyo Olympics
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA ) has demanded an investigation into the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) decision to not act on Chinese swimmers who testedpositive for a banned substance. The Chinese athletes were found to have trimetazidine (TMZ) in their blood samples months before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WADA had decided not to put sanctions on the swimmers and offered an explanation regarding the same.
"I mean, obviously, the whole situation is a tragedy for clean athletes around the world. The fact that, you know, the rules weren't followed. And obviously, that was one thing that was, you know, acknowledged by the WADA press conference that CHINADA should have announced the violation. They should have disqualified the athletes. They should have been provisionally suspended, although they claimed there was some exceptions that maybe applied there," said the USADA CEO Travis Tygart as reported by the news agency Reuters.
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The Chinese authority or CHINADA had ruled after an investigation that the swimmers who had tested positive were staying at the same hotel where traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen, the extraction unit above the hall and drainage units. China, however, offered no explanation on how the drug made its way to the hotel.
“I think WADA has a responsibility to provide all evidence and publicly disclose all evidence when it comes to what they've received – emails – to build confidence. And if there's nothing to hide, then surely they should be willing to put everything out for an independent review outside the sports industry – in fact, give it to police authorities," demanded Global Athlete director general Rob Koehler.
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The 30-member Chinese swimming contingent had won six medals at the Tokyo Olympics, which included three gold medals.
