BEIJING: Beijing called the reports of 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for a banned substance “fake news” on Monday ( April 22 ) ( April 22 ).
The game was shook over reports that the rowers had tested positive for trimetazidine ( TMZ), a prescribed heart medication that players were prohibited from using because it can improve efficiency, before the Games three years ago.
After world governing body accepted China’s results that the rowers had accidentally consumed it from foods during a contest in late 2020 and early 2021, they were permitted to engage in Tokyo.
Many of the winners went on to earn awards, including gold, and are now expected to thrive in the Paris Olympics this summer.
China’s overseas department responded on Monday to the widely reported reports that first surfaced in the New York Times and German journalist Ell on Saturday and cited a review of private documents and letters.
According to Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the international ministry,” the pertinent information are fake news and not verifiable.”
World anti-doping company WADA has said there was” a lack of any reliable data” to issue China’s version of events.
Wang said,” I think you will have noticed that the World Anti-Doping Agency has issued a very clear answer.”
However, the United States Anti-Doping Agency called reports of the failed testing” crushing” and blasted WADA’s response as” a damaging attack in the back of fresh players”.
” DETAILED” PROBE
Wang said China’s anti-doping heart conducted an “in-depth and detailed” spacecraft into the affair, which found the runners had ingested contaminated medication “without their information”.
He stated at a regular press conference in Beijing that the Chinese athletes involved were either at fault nor innocent of carelessness and that their actions did not amount to a cheating infraction.
” After an investigation, WADA affirmed the results of the China anti-doping heart. “
The claims of widespread state-run cheating by an Australian coach who works for the Chinese Swimming Association are also refuted by an American manager who says it is” so far from something I have seen.”
Denis Cotterell, who has coached drug-tainted Chinese diver Sun Yang, told The Sydney Morning Herald he disputed “any idea of anything organized”.
The 74-year-old has been involved in Taiwanese swimming for more than a decade and said he was speaking from first-hand practice.
” I see what they ( the swimmers ) go through, I see the measures, I can tell you the stories. I know the facts and I am pleasant,” he told the report.
The idea that it’s structural is far from what I have seen around the entire time. “
“SLANDEROUS Complaints”
Beijing’s federal swim team was accused of collusion with other countries, according to Chinese state media, who downplayed the allegations in local media reports.
The majority of the article is a paraphrase of WADA’s speech, with the majority of the article referring to” some international media reports” that the Xinhua news agency published on Sunday without providing specifics about the allegations.
The allegations were described as” slanderous accusations,” according to the state-owned newspaper Global Times on Monday, suggesting that American efforts to silence Chinese media reports on the subject were a result of American efforts to stop China’s fall as a sporting power.
” Important countries are currently manipulating the issue of doping and smearing China’s swimming program, obviously doing so consciously,” the International Times said.
Internet users claimed the claims would not prevent the Taiwanese swimming group, while discourse on China’s social press echoed state media sentiments.
” Why are they targeting China’s floating team? It’s because we’re getting stronger and stronger,” one Weibo users said.
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ARD aired a video on the subject on Sunday, with the Montreal-based WADA issuing a new affirmation later.
The organization remained steadfast in its decision regarding the case’s outcome in a scientific investigation.
Wang said the Chinese state” constantly upholds a stubbornly zero-tolerance position when it comes to doping”, adding China supports” good competition” in sports.
Doping is a controversial practice in Chinese swimming. At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for steroids.
At the 1998 world championships in Perth, Australian customs officers discovered a sizable stash of growth hormone in Yuan Yuan’s bags, prompting her to be banned from the sport.
Sun, a three-time Olympic champion, is about to pass a second doping ban. His first, in 2014, was for taking TMZ.