Chinese swimmers who failed doping tests before the Tokyo Olympics were previously found positive for banned substances, raising concerns about global antidoping efforts. The swimmers were allowed to compete despite prior positive tests for different banned drugs.
China’s Olympic swim team loaded with athletes implicated in doping scandal https://t.co/F2jRgXILRf https://t.co/uQVSXcmUnz
China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a doping scandal to next month's Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games. https://t.co/Gr7IibhI4q
Over a third of China’s Paris Olympics swimming roster tied to doping scandal https://t.co/PzqlYQMQcJ
China names swim team for Paris Olympics amid doping cloud https://t.co/eQh3dPJ6va https://t.co/xGAjuy4KWQ
#NewsAlert | China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a doping scandal to next month's Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games. (Reported by news agency AFP)
#BREAKING China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a doping scandal to next month's Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games https://t.co/Oag8trP6xQ
WADA and the CCP knew that doping by Chinese swimmers wasn't a one time offense. With the Olympic games just over a month away, it is disturbing that WADA has failed to follow the correct protocol and hold athletes accountable for repeated doping offenses. https://t.co/ITTrZZAKr7
The Chinese Swimming Administrative Center announced the swimming, diving, and artistic swimming squad for the #Paris2024 Olympics Games on Tuesday, including Quan Hongchan, Cao Yuan, Zhang Yufei, Ye Shiwen, Wang Shun, and many other Olympic champions. https://t.co/Tg7FnvHCSv
The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) has criticized a New York Times report suggesting that Chinese swimmers were involved in doping in 2016 and 2017, calling it "a violation of media ethics and morals." https://t.co/rjfmaZxF8t
The General Administration of #Sport Swimming Center released the list of athletes selected for #diving, #swimming, #marathonswimming and #synchronizedswimming events at the #ParisOlympics on Tue afternoon. The diving athletes include six male athletes, #QuanHongchan and other… https://t.co/Sonu5vy7ph
Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs. They Kept on Swimming. https://t.co/aa9t3dsyuz
[Recap] 3 Chinese swimmers in a drug scandal ahead of the Tokyo Olympics had reported tested positive for banned substances in earlier cases. https://t.co/SYcRhxCsSF
3 swimmers in China doping scandal reportedly failed earlier tests, as Beijing says they consumed contaminated meat 🔗 https://t.co/SYcRhxCsSF https://t.co/ctCGBTsQks
Scoop via @NYTMike and @tariqpanja: Three of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance before the Tokyo Olympics but competed anyway had previously tested positive for a different banned drug. They weren’t punished then, either. https://t.co/maw0j743pE
Three Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests before the 2021 Olympics had tested positive for a powerful steroid several years earlier. | via @nytimes https://t.co/G7cnRJC3X2
It turns out that elite Chinese swimmers had a history of testing positive on drug tests and covering up the results. #Doping https://t.co/9c4I6IDrwA
https://t.co/wHSVpViy3o More on Chinese swimmers doping.
“The two incidents add to longstanding suspicions among rival athletes about what they see as a pattern of Chinese doping and the unwillingness or inability of the global authority, the World Anti-Doping Agency, to deal with it.” https://t.co/CKJzeWiTBv
Breaking News: Evidence of Chinese swimmers’ past positive doping tests is renewing concerns about global antidoping efforts weeks before the Paris Olympics. https://t.co/fqApQHdcxP
After the revelation in April that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned substance months before competing the Tokyo Olympics, China and WADA vigorously defended their actions. But it turns out there were other, earlier positive tests, too. https://t.co/3cCYMPHsjm
🚨 💉 🏊♀️ Antidoping regulators knew three of the 23 Chinese swimmers who failed dope tests before being allowed to compete - and win — at Tokyo Games also failed tests years earlier for another banned substance. W/ @nytmike via @nytimes https://t.co/PzHW9tnXCx