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Doping Cases and Bans in 2024


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The International Olympic Committee has asked for talks between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the United States, including the country’s anti-doping agency USADA, to resolve a dispute over jurisdiction in doping matters, it said on Wednesday.

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Tuesday threatened to cut USA funding for Wada, accusing it of failing to properly investigate alleged doping by Chinese Olympic swimmers. The USA, the largest single country funder of Wada, has accused the global anti-doping body of not disclosing that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for performance-enhancing trimetazidine (TMZ) in China months before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

“We have asked for a dialogue between WADA and all the stakeholders,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams told a press conference. “From our understanding the question is about respect of international agreements and those international agreements have been signed by everyone around the world, including the United States.”

The swimmers were cleared by a Chinese investigation, which said they were inadvertently exposed to the drug through contamination at a hotel but the Department of Justice has since launched an investigation. WADA said it had no evidence to challenge China’s findings. The incident, however, cast a shadow over the Paris Olympics and sparked a major row between the global and American anti-doping agencies, drawing in the IOC which said Wada was the only global body responsible for anti-doping.

Wada responded to USA allegations by saying it would take the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) to the Independent Compliance Review Committee, a move that could jeopardise plans for the U.S. to host the 2028 summer and 2034 winter Olympics in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City respectively.

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On 7/31/2024 at 9:23 PM, Surlympics said:

More news today about a member of the Chinese swim team women's 4 x 200 that is competing tomorrow testing positive for an anabolic steroid last year Tang Muhan. She now joins Yang Jungxuan and Zhang Yufei (also competing in the 200 fly) who tested positive for TMZ. They claim it was caused from eating hamburgers. Now 75 percent of the relay has been caught for doping with absolutely no punishment at all. So awful what is going on here, how are they still allowed to compete?

It was in 2022 and this was confirmation of rumours that were already spreading at the time on social media and at SwimSwam that she'd tested positive.

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2 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

Famously in France, Camille Lacourt told about Sun Yang alter a race that the chinese was "pisse violet" (pissing purple)

 

Later on, it was discovered that Sun Yang was indeed "pisse violet"

So what? everybody loves to see a rainbow

If the lights light up exactly at the correct moment, he was definitely first, since his light went on first. Not sure if those lights are 100% accurate though?

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10 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Whose the Greek whose been sent home for a positive test?

do you mean Helen Claudia Polak (pole vault)?

Bring back the 1991 borders

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