International Olympic Committee President backs World Anti-Doping Agency handling of Chinese swimmers case
Xinhua News Agency, Lausanne, April 27 (Xinhua) – The President of the International Little Olympic Committee expressed support for the way the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) handled the case of a Chinese swimmer who tested positive for corruption.
Bach said in an exclusive interview with AFP: “We have full confidence in WADA and the anti-doping rules themselves, and we firmly believe that WADA will abide by the rules.”
Data map: President of the International Little Olympic Committee. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter, Li Ming
The Chairman of WADA Banka said in a previous press conference that WADA followed all due procedures at every step and carefully investigated every clue on this matter. “If we had to do it all over again, we would do exactly the same thing.”
At the National Swimming Competition in January 2021, the results of the doping test conducted by the China Anti-Doping Center showed that some athletes’ samples were positive for very low concentrations of trimetazidine. The China Anti-Doping Center immediately launched a thorough and detailed investigation from all aspects, together with relevant evidence such as inspections and doping tests, and determined that the athletes in question did not use prohibited substances intentionally, and the positive test was not caused. through the use of drugs, nutritional supplements and other factors It was caused by unknowingly swallowing food contaminated with trimetazidine during the incident.
Since then, WADA has carried out a full review of the case and believes that it cannot disprove the possibility that trimetazidine came from contamination The test data in the case file is also consistent with the possibility of contamination, and should be found that the athletes have no fault or negligence. According to the relevant regulations, in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of athletes, the case will not be treated as a doping violation and the relevant parties have not appealed against the case, and the results will not be published to the public.
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