Is the World Anti-Doping Agency in cahoots with the Chinese government?
By Donna August 4, 2024 6:45 am Category: Sports (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Salt Lake Awarded 2034 Olympics Under I.O.C. Pressure Over Doping Inquiries
Olympic officials insisted on the right to pull the Games amid U.S. investigations into how the World Anti-Doping Agency handled positive tests for banned substances among Chinese swimmers.
The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City on Wednesday only after a last-minute demand that the agreement shield global sports authorities from U.S. investigations into doping by Chinese athletes.
Organizers of Salt Lake City’s bid and Gov. Spencer J. Cox of Utah agreed to the changes sought by the I.O.C. The unexpected twist came amid an escalating dispute between the global antidoping agency and its American counterpart, and at a time when the Justice Department and Congress are looking into why Chinese swimmers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs three years ago were not subject to penalties from the World Anti-Doping Agency...
The announcement brought fully into the open a festering clash within the sports world over reports of Chinese doping, the adequacy of the response and aggressive efforts by the United States to combat it.
Critics of the I.O.C. and the antidoping agency, known as WADA, said they saw the developments as a blatant effort to cover up both a pattern of suspicious activity in the Chinese swimming program and the unwillingness of WADA to confront it.
“It is shocking to see the I.O.C. itself stooping to threats in an apparent effort to silence those seeking answers to what are now known as facts,” said Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which has been in an increasingly open battle with WADA over policing the use of banned substances.
“It seems more apparent than ever that WADA violated the rules and needs accountability and reform to truly be the global watchdog that clean athletes need,” Mr. Tygart said in a statement.
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Another article I read reported that after testing revealed the presence of a banned drug called TMZ in the blood of Chinese swimmers, China used the excuse that the swimmers got TMZ from hamburgers they ate in Bejing, and WADA then okayed those swimmers for competition. Sounds fishy to me.
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