Category: Doping
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Paris Olympics: Doping Cloud Over Swimming Events | World News | WION
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How Olympic Sports Doping Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
Victor Conte is a sports coach who designed doping programs with world-class athletes. Through his platform, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, he supplied an untraceable designer steroid among other drugs to competitors who dominated the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics. Conte used a transparent anabolic steroid nicknamed “the clear” in training programs…
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FBI Launches Criminal Investigation Into 23 Chinese Swimmers For Doping | ABC News
The swimmers tested positive for a banned substance in 2021, but were allowed to continue competing. Eleven of the swimmers who were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics are also set to compete in Paris at the end of July.
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The Doping Scandal Rocking the Upcoming Olympics | New York Times Podcasts
A new doping scandal is rocking the world of competitive swimming, as the Paris Olympics approach. These allegations are raising questions about fairness in the sport and whether the results at the summer games can be trusted. Michael S. Schmidt, one of the reporters who broke the story, explains the controversy and what it reveals…
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Us Swim Team Blasts Olympics Anti-doping In Congress | Reuters
US swimming star Michael Phelps told a congressional panel that anti-doping measures ‘have fallen short’ in a case involving Chinese swimmers ahead of this summer’s Paris 2024 Olympics See Reuters
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U.S. Swimmers Express Frustration Over Doping Scandal Ahead Of Olympic Trials | ABS-CBN News
Faith in a level playing field at international competitions has been shaken by reports that Chinese swimmers had tested positive for banned substances ahead of the Tokyo Games in 2021, U.S. swimmers said on the eve of the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. The New York Times in April reported that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive…
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WADA Hits Back After New Report On Chinese Swimmers | ABS-CBN News
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) defended its dismissal of positive tests for a banned substance among three Chinese swimmers in 2016 and 2017, after a prior report showed 23 other swimmers from the country had avoided punishment in a separate case.
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Katie Ledecky on Sports Doping and the Paris Olympics | CBS Good Morning
Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold at age 15, and today has more individual Olympic gold medals than any woman swimmer in history. As she gears up for the Paris Olympics this summer, Ledecky talks with correspondent Elaine Quijano about reexamining the results of the 2021 Tokyo Games after news that Chinese swimmers had…
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Nick Butler: Investigating the Chinese Swimming Doping Scandal | Inside With Brett Hawke
Nick Butler is an English journalist who has been investigating doping allegations in Chinese swimming for years. In early 2021, 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance at a domestic competition in China. While authorities claimed contamination caused the results, international bodies accepted this without thorough review, leading to accusations of a mishandled…