WADA has been accused of participating in a cover-up for China‘s swim program – but it will not stay silent
Complaints are nothing new to the World Anti-Doping Agency . In its 25-year history, the agency has grown a thick skin as external opinions variously maintain that its oversight is too light here, or too heavy there. But over all, the global system dedicated to protecting against doping in sport has proved its value in the years since I helped found WADA and became its president in 1999 .
in Paris. The swimmers tested positive for trace amounts of a prohibited substance, results that were reported by China’s anti-doping agency. That body concluded that the exposure was most likely caused by accidental contamination rather than doping. Separate and subsequent reviews by WADA and by World Aquatics, the global governing body for swimming, concluded the same.
the CAS was willing to accept a finding of no-fault contamination since the evidence for anything else was non-existent.
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