PARIS — The stream of threats, recriminations and anti-doping innuendo flowed freely again Thursday when tensions over a U.S. law designed to combat drugs in sports escalated on the eve of the Paris Olympics.
It's a fight that's been simmering for a decade, sparked by Russia's brazen doping scandal at the Sochi Olympics. The reaction from the World Anti-Doping Agency and IOC was criticized as too weak by many, including the United States. So much so, that the U.S. passed a law in 2020 giving federal authorities power to investigate sports doping and cover-ups.
law enacted by Congress that has cleaned up sport consistent with the WADA rules and has been in existence for several years,' he said in a statement to The Associated Press.At his own news conference in Paris, USOPC chair Gene Sykes, who was just made a member of the IOC, said he hopes this pattern of 'throwing rocks at each other' would calm down soon.
Olympic-Sized Fight Erupts Among Anti-Doping Officials
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