Olympic swimmers spoke out about the Chinese doping scandal that has hung over these Paris Olympics as the events finished.

Chinese doping scandal that has hung over these Paris Olympics as the events finished Sunday night.

China won the men’s 4x100-meter medley relay in 3 minutes, 27.46 seconds, with two of the four members on the team listed among 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive ahead of the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. The swimmers were allowed to compete after a Chinese investigation ruled that they consumed food that had been contaminated. 

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The New York Times reported last week that two more Chinese swimmers had tested positive, including one 2024 Olympian, for a banned substance in 2022 but were cleared by Chinese officials to compete.

The World Anti-Doping Agency stood by its decision to clear the 23 swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication.

  • voluble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Theoretical question - would it be possible to get so gassed up that if you peed in the pool you’d make everyone else test positive?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I don’t think so. It would probably be enough to kill you. Even if you did put enough in the water to make an impact on the other swimmers in the short time they’re in the pool, I’m not sure that it would be absorbed into the hair properly to show up in hair tests.