Paris Olympics: China picks 11 swimmers who tested positive for banned heart drugs
China is sending 11 swimmers to the Paris 2024 Olympics who tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, including Zhang Yufe and Wang Shun.
China is sending 11 swimmers embroiled in a doping scandal to the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Among the 31-member swim roster it released Tuesday, the Chinese Swimming Association named almost a dozen swimmers who tested positive for the banned heart drug trimetazidine in 2021.
While those tests took place three years ago, the results only came to light this year, sparking international outrage both at China and the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA said it accepted China’s explanation that the 23 swimmers who failed tests accidentally ate food contaminated with the substance, known as TMZ, which was found at “very low levels.”
The global anti-doping agency privately cleared the swimmers of wrongdoing and allowed them to compete at Tokyo 2021 — where two of them went onto win Olympic golds.
Eleven of those 23 were named Tuesday as being in the Chinese team that will compete at the Games next month.
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