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China’s Olympic swim team loaded with athletes implicated in doping scandal
By Post Wire Report,
8 days ago
China named a 31-member swim team for the Paris Games featuring six Olympic gold medalists on Tuesday, while a review continues of a doping case involving the country’s swimmers before the Tokyo Games in 2021.
China’s team for Paris includes Olympic women’s 200m butterfly champion Zhang Yufei and men’s 200m individual medley winner Wang Shun.
Eleven members of China’s team were implicated in the doping scandal, including Yufei and Shun, according to NBC News.
Zhang Yufei is one of 11 swimmers implicated in the doping scandal that made China’s Olympic team. AFP via Getty Images Wang Shun was also part of the scandal. Getty Images
In April, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said it would send a compliance team to China to assess the country’s anti-doping program after confirming media reports that 23 swimmers had tested positive for a banned substance before Tokyo.
The swimmers had tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned heart drug that is known to improve performance.
China cleared the swimmers of wrongdoing before the 2020 Games, deciding the positive tests were the result of being inadvertently exposed to the banned substance through contamination, and WADA accepted its finding.
The handling of the case sparked criticism from national anti-doping authorities and a number of leading swimmers, who said it had undermined trust in the global anti-doping system.
American seven-times Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky said faith in the anti-doping system was at “an all-time low” in a TV interview last month.
“It’s hard going into Paris knowing that we’re going to be racing some of these athletes,” she said.
WADA vigorously defended its processes before announcing it would launch the independent review.
Zhang Yufei competes in the heats of the women’s 50m butterfly event during the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games. AFP via Getty Images Members of China’s swim team pose with medals during the Asian Games. VCG via Getty Images
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