The seven-time Olympic gold medalist says he doesn’t trust the organization to produce a fair Summer Games in Paris.
PARIS — Caeleb Dressel was sitting at a World Aquatics press conference Thursday afternoon when he was asked the question that hovers over Olympic swimming: does he trust World Aquatics to stage a fair, drug-free competition here?
“Not really,” the seven-time gold medalist continued. “I don’t really think they’ve given us enough evidence to support them in how those cases were handled.”“Those cases” refers to the much-discussed, 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for the prohibited substance trimetazidine in 2021—positive tests that were never publicly disclosed and never led to any sanctions. Revelations about those tests explodedand have been a source of constant discussion and crossfire ever since.
“When you have someone like Caeleb say that, obviously it’s not what you want any athlete to say,” said World Aquatics CEO Brent Nowicki, who acknowledged that the sport needs to do work to restore trust. “But we have to look forward. We have to regain his trust and regain the athletes’ trust who share that same opinion.
Most of the blowback has been directed at the World Anti-Doping Association, which declined to make public China’s positive tests or take any action against the Chinese, citing China’s assertion that the TMZ was an accidental contaminant from a hotel in which the swimmers were staying. But World Aquatics also has been implicated for standing by WADA’s findings.this week released statisticsThe governing body says it conducted 2,958 tests of nearly 1,300 athletes since Jan.
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