Several swimmers have already earned spots on Team USA at Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, including seven-time gold medalist Katie Ledecky and 21-year-old Gretchen Walsh, who swam to a world record in the 100-meter butterfly. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.
China is sending 11 swimmers embroiled in a doping scandal to the Paris 2024 Olympics. Among the 31-member swim roster it released Tuesday, the Chinese Swimming Association named almost a dozen swimmers who tested positive for the banned heart drug trimetazidine in 2021. While those tests took place three years ago, the results only came to light this year, sparking international outrage both at China and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
of double standards. The doping agency's clearing of China's swimmers comes after it banned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who also claimed to have been contaminated with TMZ ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. When the positive Chinese tests emerged, Travis Tygart, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, USADA, called the news “crushing.” He said the world and Chinese anti-doping associations had “secretly, until now, swept these positives under the carpet.
has at the same time issued several sharp-tongued rebukes, echoing China by calling the coverage “misleading and potentially defamatory.” It said in an April statement that “the contamination scenario was plausible and that there was no concrete scientific element to challenge it.” Last week,
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