Chinese swimming doping scandal casts doubt on Paris Olympics

Swimming suffered a blow in 2024 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) processed the Chinese swimming team's positive test results ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

The story, reported by the New York Times and German news organization ARD, involves 23 Chinese swimmers, 11 of whom will compete in the Paris Olympics, who tested positive for the heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ) during a training camp seven months before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. And the scandal has spread to the Paris Games, with Chinese swimmers angry about their rivals' "tricks."

It has China's Zhang Yufei, a gold medalist in the women's ...