In April the NY Times revealed that a group of elite Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned substance, but for reasons that still aren’t clear the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) didn’t follow normal procedures and announce the findings and the names of those involved.
The incident happened in early 2021 about 7 months before the start of the summer Olympics which had been delayed a year because of the pandemic. In all, 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned heart drug called TMZ. China’s doping agency came up with an unconvincing explanation for how this happened.
In their report, Chinese investigators described how many of the country’s best swimmers were staying at the same hotel for a domestic meet in the final days of 2020 and the first days of 2021. Two months after the swimmers tested positive for the banned substance — a prescription heart drug that…
