Tag: Tokyo 2020
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World Anti-doping Agency Accused of Aiding Cover-up of Chinese Swimmers’ Positive Tests | ABC News
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been accused of complicity in covering up a Chinese doping scandal after it confirmed 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Trimetazidine before the Tokyo games. Chinese authorities say a contamination event caused the finding and they immediately reported the discovery to WADA, which chose not to…
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Chinese Swim Team Could Be Retrospectively Disqualified for Doping | The Project
A bombshell report has revealed that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance months before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the World Anti-Doping Agency knew about it. It means our Aussies could get new medals if they’re disqualified.
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Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Doping Before Tokyo 2020 | Reuters
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug called Trimetazidine, which is found in heart medication, months before the Olympics began in Tokyo in July 2021. Read Reuters
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Swimming Gold & New Wr | Mixed 4x100M Medley Relay Team’s Road to Gold | Team GB
A look back at Tokyo 2020 and the 4x100m mixed relay swimming team making a splash in this debut event at the Olympics.
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Record-Breaker | Sensational Tom Daley Wins Four Olympic Diving Medals | Team GB
Tom Daley became the first Team GB diver to win four Olympic medals, having won gold in Tokyo in the 10m synchro with Matty Lee, and his third bronze medal in the 10m platform. Previously, Daley won bronze at London 2012 in the individual discipline before adding another in the synchro with Dan Goodfellow at…
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Katie Ledecky Reacts to Her Tokyo 2020 800M Win | Olympics
Katie Ledecky is an American swimming legend. She is considered as the best freestyle swimmer of the present day and one of the best swimmers of all time, with 7 Olympic victories, 18 world titles, and currently 2 world records. In this video, she reacts to her 800m freestyle performance at the Olympic Games 2030…
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Swimming Gold for Britain in First Ever Mixed Gender Race | Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games | Medal Moments | Team GB
A Team GB quartet of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, and Anna Hopkin ensured their place in the history books as they won the inaugural mixed 4x100m medley relay at an Olympic Games with a mesmerizing world record swim at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The swimmers delivered a dominant display to smash the world…
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Ariarne Titmus’s Olympic Heroine Story! 🏊♀️ | Olympics
In her first Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020, Australia’s Ariarne Titmus crowned herself Olympic champion in the women’s 400m freestyle in a time of 3:56.69. She beat World Record holder Katie Ledecky of the USA who came in second in 3:57.36 to take the gold medal. Lisanne de Witte retells the whole Olympic story that…
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Finally Gold! 🥇 Tom Daley’s Quest for Olympic Glory! | Olympics
In season two of Wait For It, Dutch sprinter Lisanne de Witte takes you on a journey back in time to relive Olympic history. In this episode, we rediscover the story of British diver Tom Daley and his quest for Olympic gold in his fourth Olympics at Tokyo 2020.