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Australian swimming chiefs are making their own inquiries after the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the Tokyo Olympics but accepted the nation’s findings of substance contamination. The swimmers reportedly tested positive for trimetazidine , which is found in heart medication, months before the pandemic-delayed Games began in the Japanese capital in July 2021.
said it was notified in June 2021 of CHINADA’s decision to accept the swimmers returned adverse analytical findings after inadvertently being exposed to the drug through contamination. The global anti-doping body, which has the authority to appeal the rulings of national agencies, said it reviewed the decision and consulted scientific experts and external legal counsel to test the contamination theory.
also concluded that ... the athletes would be held to have no fault or negligence. As such, and based on the advice of external counsel,
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