https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050528/olympic-threaten-salt-lake-2034-winter-games-doping
It's really incredible. We bench our best female sprinter in the last Olympics because of marijuana use, while China (and usually Russia) are getting away with failed steroid tests with IOC support.
What a joke. We will still crush them anyways.
On a lighter note; the Paris Mayor just pulled a Kramer by swimming in the French equivalent of the East River.
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/17/paris-mayor-anne-hidalgo-fulfils-olympic-promise-swim-in-the-seine-cleanup-pollution
Quote:
In a shocking move on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee moved to crush U.S. inquiries into a Chinese sports doping scandal, by threatening to reject Salt Lake City's bid to host the Winter Games in 2034.
In a series of fierce statements coordinated by IOC President Thomas Bach, top IOC committee members blasted U.S. officials for opening probes into handling of the China case by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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The China scandal involves 23 swimmers who tested positive for banned performance enhancing substances on at least two occasions prior to the Tokyo Summer Games in 2021.
WADA officials have acknowledged keeping the test results secret until they were revealed by journalists this spring.
Eleven of those athletes are expected to compete again in Paris.
WADA president Witold Banka said at a press conference in April his organization did nothing wrong.
"At every stage, WADA followed all due process and diligently investigated. If we had to do it over again now, we would do exactly the same thing," Banka said.
On Wednesday, members of the IOC said they agreed with WADA's decision to accept a claim by Chinese officials that the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination.
But the case has sparked a growing firestorm of criticism in the U.S., from members of Congress, sports doping experts, and Olympic athletes.
USADA's Tygart, whose organization monitors and penalizes American athletes if they cheat, testified before a House panel in June that WADA had failed for years to properly punish Chinese and also Russian sports teams that regularly use performance-enhancing drugs.
It's really incredible. We bench our best female sprinter in the last Olympics because of marijuana use, while China (and usually Russia) are getting away with failed steroid tests with IOC support.
What a joke. We will still crush them anyways.
On a lighter note; the Paris Mayor just pulled a Kramer by swimming in the French equivalent of the East River.
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/17/paris-mayor-anne-hidalgo-fulfils-olympic-promise-swim-in-the-seine-cleanup-pollution
