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Posted: 2024-07-04 22:57:07

In short:

World Aquatics has confirmed its executive director has been subpoenaed by the US government to testify in an investigation into doping cases of 23 Chinese swimmers.

The swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine in January 2021, but WADA accepted that traces of the substance were found in the kitchen at the team's hotel.

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The Paris Olympics, which begin on July 26, will see 11 of the swimmers who tested positive in 2021 set to compete.

The international swimming federation says its top administrator has been ordered to testify as a witness in a US criminal investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who failed doping tests in 2021 yet were allowed to continue competing.

The news comes just three weeks before the Paris Olympics, where 11 of the Chinese swimmers who tested positive for the banned heart medication three years ago are set to compete.

The swimmers won three gold medals for China at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, just weeks after the World Anti-Doping Agency declined to challenge Chinese authorities' explanation of food contamination at a hotel to justify not suspending them.

Those decisions, which World Aquatics separately reached also, were not revealed until reporting in April by the New York Times and German broadcaster ARD.

A House Committee on China asked the Justice Department and the FBI on May 21 to investigate the case under a federal law that allows probes into suspected doping conspiracies even if they occurred outside the US.

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