Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 27, 2024 11:58:45 GMT
It has been a week since the New York Times and the German TV channel ARD broke the news that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for trace amounts of the banned performance-enhancing drug trimetazidine (TMZ) in the run-up to the last Olympic Games, and public ripples we have seen since are only the visible tip of a wave of feeling running through the sport.
The larger part is below the surface, where there is widespread anger, exasperation and disillusionment at the way the 23 were allowed to compete at the Games anyway after an investigation by their national doping agency, Chinada, found the results were caused by kitchen contamination.
Three of them went on to win gold medals. One, Wang Shun, finished just 0.28sec ahead of Duncan Scott in the 200m individual medley. Both men are among the favourites again this year. “Give Slam his gold medal now,” Scott’s friend and team-mate James Guy posted on X when the story broke (Slam is Scott’s nickname).
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www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/27/poison-in-the-pool-why-the-latest-chinese-doping-row-is-proving-so-toxic
The larger part is below the surface, where there is widespread anger, exasperation and disillusionment at the way the 23 were allowed to compete at the Games anyway after an investigation by their national doping agency, Chinada, found the results were caused by kitchen contamination.
Three of them went on to win gold medals. One, Wang Shun, finished just 0.28sec ahead of Duncan Scott in the 200m individual medley. Both men are among the favourites again this year. “Give Slam his gold medal now,” Scott’s friend and team-mate James Guy posted on X when the story broke (Slam is Scott’s nickname).
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www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/27/poison-in-the-pool-why-the-latest-chinese-doping-row-is-proving-so-toxic
