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.

  • zephyreks@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    4 months ago

    THC is illegal in most of the world still. It’s like how testing positive for cocaine probably isn’t good for your odds.

    • EtherWhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      They don’t really mention if it’s illegal or not to their reasoning. They only use three parameters for the decision.

      source

      They argue for points 2 (health risk) and 3 (commonly abused), both of which cigarettes and alcohol fit right in, but are unrestricted.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        15·
        4 months ago

        Why, exactly, do you think THC and cocaine are illegal for recreational consumption in most of the world? Someone decided one day that they really didn’t like the way it looks?

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          4 months ago

          Cultural imperialism and racism, really. The US was the driving force behind the war on drugs, and boy were our drug laws not passed to do anything except oppress inconvenient demographic groups.