White House is holding up U.S. funding for WADA as it presses the agency to do a full audit of its operations
In the middle of 2020, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s investigative unit sent the agency’s top officials a report containing a stark warning based on an interview it had conducted with a doctor who had worked in China ’s Sports Ministry.Among the ways Chinese athletes were cheating, she said, was by taking undetectable amounts of a little-known prescription heart medication, trimetazidine, or TMZ, which can help increase stamina, endurance and recovery.
The report proved prescient: Seven months after it was submitted to the anti-doping agency’s leaders, 23 elite Chinese swimmers tested positive for TMZ after competing at a national meet in China. The decision by the agency’s leaders to keep its own investigators in the dark raises new questions about WADA’s response to repeated incidents of possible doping by Chinese athletes.
In a statement, WADA confirmed that it had walled off its investigative unit from dealing with the positive tests for TMZ among the Chinese swimmers. The agency said that decision was warranted because “a thorough legal and scientific review of the facts, including by external legal counsel,” showed “no basis to challenge the contamination explanation” offered by the Chinese.
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