Category: Doping
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British Swimmer Wants ‘Cheating’ Chinese Out Of Paris Olympics Amid Doping Allegations | South China Morning Post
PeatBritish three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty said he wants “cheating” Chinese swimmers knocked out of the sport, and urged the World Anti-Doping Agency to “wake up and do your job”. Peaty made his remarks after China won the 2024 Olympics 4×100 metres medley relay, beating the United States and France. Great Britain finished the…
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Sun Yang Wiped From Olympics History As Bobby Finke Breaks Swimming World Record | news.com.au
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, American swimmer Bobby Finke knocked Sun Yang out of the history books in an epic finish, after smashing his 1500m freestyle event record by 35 hundredths of a second. In the space of a decade, Sun won three Olympic gold medals and became an eleven-time world champion, not to mention…
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British Olympic Swimmer Adam Peaty Says ‘Lack Of Wada Transparency Is Suspicious’ | France 24
Pan Zhanle and stalwart Zhang Yufei spearheaded China to 12 Olympic medals in the Paris pool, shrugging off intense scrutiny over a doping controversy that engulfed the team ahead of the Games. Britain’s three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty found China’s gold medal-winning success in the 4x100m medley hard to believe, saying on Sunday “there’s no…
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Chinese Olympic Swimmers Doping Scandal: What You Need To Know | Radio Free Asia
China’s Olympic swim team is under scrutiny for alleged steroid use. Several Chinese athletes have tested positive in drug tests prior to the 2024 Olympic games. Chinese authorities blamed the trace amounts of the drugs found in athletes’ systems to food contamination. U.S. media and lawmakers have questioned the World Anti-Doping Agency on the validity…
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2024 Olympics: How To Prevent Use Of Performance-enhancing Drugs? | France 24 English
On Friday, the Afghan judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad was provisionally suspended after failing a doping test for a banned steroid. On the Chinese team, 23 swimmers tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Recent media reports revealed they were allowed to compete in those Games without being sanctioned. How to prevent…
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ITA Responds To Increased Anti-doping Tests On Chinese Swimmers | CGTN Europe
Chinese swimming team members have received over 200 anti-doping tests during the first 10 days in Paris, according to team nutritionist Yu Liang. Yu said every athlete on the team has to receive at least 5 to 7 tests every day on average, and such frequency of tests have disturbed the athletes’ rest. The International…
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Paris Olympics: Doping Cloud Over Swimming Events | World News | WION
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How Olympic Sports Doping Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
Victor Conte is a sports coach who designed doping programs with world-class athletes. Through his platform, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, he supplied an untraceable designer steroid among other drugs to competitors who dominated the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics. Conte used a transparent anabolic steroid nicknamed “the clear” in training programs…
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FBI Launches Criminal Investigation Into 23 Chinese Swimmers For Doping | ABC News
The swimmers tested positive for a banned substance in 2021, but were allowed to continue competing. Eleven of the swimmers who were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics are also set to compete in Paris at the end of July.