Swimming at the upcoming Olympics will be held at the Paris La Defense Arena, where 11 Chinese athletes who tested positive for a banned substance in 2021 are set to compete.
The international swimming federation says its executive director has been ordered to testify as a witness in a U.S. criminal investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance in 2021 yet could continue competing. The international swimming federation says its executive director has been ordered to testify as a witness in a U.S.
Those decisions, which World Aquatics separately reached also, were not revealed until reporting in April by the New York Times and German broadcaster ARD. "World Aquatics can confirm that its executive director, Brent Nowicki, was served with a witness subpoena by the United States government," the federation said in a statement to AP. "He is working to schedule a meeting with the government, which, in all likelihood will obviate the need for testimony before a Grand Jury."
The 23 swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine in January 2021 and those were filed weeks later in the global anti-doping database. They included Zhang Yufei, who went on take Olympic gold in the women's 200-meter butterfly and 4x200 freestyle relay, and Wang Shun, the men's 200 medley champion.A later investigation by Chinese state authorities said traces of the substance were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the team stayed.
Lawyers for WADA said in April this year they did not have evidence to win separate appeals against the 23 swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics. Any appeals seeking suspensions for the swimmers would have been heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, where Nowicki was a long-time senior counsel before joining World Aquatics in 2021.
That review report is pending from a WADA-appointed former public prosecutor in the Swiss canton of Vaud that is home to the International Olympic Committee and governing bodies of many Olympic sports.U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart suggested to The Associated Press an ongoing federal investigation could make sport officials traveling to the U.S. "fearful that they may have to answer questions about their activities from the FBI.
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