Sports activities Integrity Australia desires the world’s anti-doping company to launch an impartial evaluate into Chinese language swimming’s medicine case.
SIA chief govt David Sharpe has written to the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) asking for readability round the way it dealt with the optimistic drug exams of 23 Chinese language swimmers.
The swimmers examined optimistic to the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) seven months earlier than the Tokyo Olympics of 2021, however have been nonetheless allowed to compete on the Video games.
Sharpe referred to as on WADA to provoke an impartial evaluate of the regulatory framework and processes utilized within the case.
“It is necessary to interrupt this down in clear, concise information to make sure confidence on the earth anti-doping system may be restored,” Sharpe stated in a press release on Thursday.
Sharpe, whereas stressing he wasn’t alleging wrongdoing, stated Australian and different athletes around the globe wanted belief within the system for it to work.
WADA final week stated it stood by its determination to clear the 23 Chinese language swimmers who examined optimistic for the banned coronary heart remedy earlier than the Tokyo Olympics.
It stated it agreed with Chinese language authorities and dominated that the swimmers’ samples have been contaminated.
The contamination was accepted to have come from spice containers within the kitchen of a lodge the place a number of the Chinese language workforce stayed for a nationwide meet in January 2021.
Chinese language authorities dealing with the case after testing the swimmers in January 2021 cleared them with none penalties.
WADA accepted their conclusions, and sending impartial investigators to China that yr was not possible in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We had no credible technique to disprove the contamination concept,” WADA prosecutor Ross Wenzel stated final week, including there was no political strain to drop the case.
CHINADA, China’s anti-doping company, stated the optimistic outcomes had been inadvertent.
It stated the swimmers examined optimistic for “extraordinarily low focus” of TMZ after inadvertently being uncovered to the substance via contamination and shouldn’t be held accountable for the optimistic outcomes.
